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https://mastodon.social/@WhisperingHek/114852775995693920

Abandoned Police Station
Baywatch Nights 2x09 - Night Whispers
#RandomBaywatch #lvdlpx #Baywatch

OWSM-Biasing: Contextualizing Open Whisper-Style Speech Models for Automatic Speech Recognition with Dynamic Vocabulary
Yui Sudo, Yusuke Fujita, Atsushi Kojima, Tomoya Mizumoto, Lianbo Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09448

OWSM-Biasing: Contextualizing Open Whisper-Style Speech Models for Automatic Speech Recognition with Dynamic Vocabulary
Speech foundation models (SFMs), such as Open Whisper-Style Speech Models (OWSM), are trained on massive datasets to achieve accurate automatic speech recognition. However, even SFMs struggle to accurately recognize rare and unseen words. While contextual biasing (CB) is a promising approach to improve recognition of such words, most CB methods are trained from scratch, resulting in lower performance than SFMs due to the lack of pre-trained knowledge. This paper integrates an existing CB method…

A profile of Sean O'Brien, the pro-Trump leader of Teamsters union and one of the very few Hollywood emissaries with the clout to lobby Trump for tax credits (The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/pol

Meet the Trump-Loving Union Boss Who Thinks He Can Save Hollywood
Sean O'Brien, the colorful and combative leader of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, is providing an unexpected line to the White House. But does Hollywood want him as its diplomat?

Speech-to-Text: Apples neue APIs übertreffen Whisper bei der Geschwindigkeit
Apple verbessert mit iOS 26 und macOS Tahoe seine Speech-to-Text-APIs erheblich. Tests zeigen: Die höhere Geschwindigkeit geht auf Kosten der Genauigkeit.

How to feel inadequate: TIL that Michael Holding — Whispering Death — preferred being a computer programmer to a professional cricketer, and worked as one well into his career. (This is from an article about the 1976 Oval match.) #Cricket

Trump-whisperer Laura Loomer sharpens her knives for Pam Bondi (Jacob Wendler/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/11/pam-bondi-dan-bongino-epstein-files-00448695
http://www.memeorandum.com/250711/p83#a250711p83

Not a whisper about this on DR's news site so thanks 🙏 @… for sharing the original briefing.
Looking forward to better IT support on our Linux machines now...
https://mastodon.social/@randahl/114655674138180496
randahl@mastodon.social - In Denmark, The Ministry of Digitalization now removes all Microsoft software from ministry computers and switches to open source in a strategy that has been agreed with all five regions of Denmark.
The more Trump threatens Europe, the more US companies will get the Tesla treatment.
I will not be surprised if the Parliament member iPhones are next.
https://nordjyske.dk/nyheder/politik/digitaliseringsminister-vil-udfase-microsoft-i-sit-eget-ministerium/5616096

Audio Flamingo 3: Advancing Audio Intelligence with Fully Open Large Audio Language Models
Arushi Goel, Sreyan Ghosh, Jaehyeon Kim, Sonal Kumar, Zhifeng Kong, Sang-gil Lee, Chao-Han Huck Yang, Ramani Duraiswami, Dinesh Manocha, Rafael Valle, Bryan Catanzaro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08128…

Audio Flamingo 3: Advancing Audio Intelligence with Fully Open Large Audio Language Models
We present Audio Flamingo 3 (AF3), a fully open state-of-the-art (SOTA) large audio-language model that advances reasoning and understanding across speech, sound, and music. AF3 introduces: (i) AF-Whisper, a unified audio encoder trained using a novel strategy for joint representation learning across all 3 modalities of speech, sound, and music; (ii) flexible, on-demand thinking, allowing the model to do chain-of-thought-type reasoning before answering; (iii) multi-turn, multi-audio chat; (iv) …

On Barriers to Archival Audio Processing
Peter Sullivan, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08768 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

On Barriers to Archival Audio Processing
In this study, we leverage a unique UNESCO collection of mid-20th century radio recordings to probe the robustness of modern off-the-shelf language identification (LID) and speaker recognition (SR) methods, especially with respect to the impact of multilingual speakers and cross-age recordings. Our findings suggest that LID systems, such as Whisper, are increasingly adept at handling second-language and accented speech. However, speaker embeddings remain a fragile component of speech processing…