Quieter Than the Room: Representation Drift and Task Robustness in Speech Encoders

arXiv:2609.27195 · cs.SD, cs.CL · Submitted 2026-09-23 · Read on arXiv

cs.SD, cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-09-23

Updated: 2026-09-23

Code: https://github.com/snakers4/silero-vad

Terminology

• Accuracy — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Robustness — 5× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Actor — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Verification — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Embeddings — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Foundation Model — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Foundation Models — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Self-Supervised Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Hallucination — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Representation Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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