2025
Investigation of Whisper ASR Hallucinations Induced by Non-Speech Audio
Mateusz Baranski, Jan Jasinski, Julitta Bartolewska, Stanislaw Kacprzak, Marcin Witkowski, Konrad Kowalczyk
ICASSP 2025accepted
Hallucinations of deep neural models are amongst key challenges in automatic speech recognition (ASR). In this paper, we investigate hallucinations of the Whisper ASR model induced by non-speech audio segments present during inference. By inducting hallucinations with various types of sounds, we sho…