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Whisper Hallucinates on Silence: 61 of 700 Pauses Became 'Thank You'

A user's transcript said "Thank you." in the middle of an answer about database indexing. They never said it. They paused for four seconds to think, and Whisper filled the silence with a polite sentence that didn't exist. That one line sent me on a two-day audit. The short version: Whisper hallucin…

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  1. 2026-11-09 19:17 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    Whisper Hallucinates on Silence: 61 of 700 Pauses Became 'Thank You'

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