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2026-08-06
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Paper Deep-Dive: Why Whisper Is Robust — Large-Scale Weak Supervision
A reading of the Whisper paper (Radford et al., 2022) built strictly from its own text. Waveform to log-Mel spectrogram, an encoder-decoder that emits text directly, and how 680,000 hours produced robustness without fine-tuning — with the numbers the paper actually measured and the limits it admits to.