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A 2025 study on dementia speech says that Whisper tends to omit filler words such as uh and um from its transcripts.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“Whisper tends to omit filler words such as uh and um in its transcriptions”
WhisperD: Dementia Speech Recognition and Filler Word Detection with Whisper, Emmanuel Akinrintoyo et al., arXiv, 2025, Discussion.
Open the original- What it measures
- The study used Whisper on speech with frequent pauses and repetitions, and it observed that fillers were often dropped.
- What it does not show
- A preprint and a side observation in a dementia speech study. It does not measure a general omission rate across all speakers.
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