Fact · Languages and accents
The authors say that multilingual models such as Whisper often struggle with the code-switching setting.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“these models often struggle with handling the code-switching setting”
Attention-Guided Adaptation for Code-Switching Speech Recognition, Bobbi Aditya et al., arXiv, 2023, Abstract.
Open the original- What it measures
- The authors introduce this as the reason for their method, which trains a few parameters on top of Whisper.
- What it does not show
- A statement in the authors' abstract, not a measured comparison on its own.
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