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The authors found that speech recognition with Whisper significantly altered and reduced the speakers' original code-switching.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“the original code-switching behavior is significantly altered and reduced during speech recognition”
First Steps Towards Voice Anonymization for Code-Switching Speech, Sarina Meyer et al., arXiv, 2025, Results discussion.
Open the original- What it measures
- The authors describe the transcript as moving toward more monolingual text, which is why they say code-switching is lost.
- What it does not show
- The finding comes from one study on two corpora.