Confusion with freezing Whisper's feature encoder

progmars
Wed, 11 Feb 2026 08:07:36 +0000

Thank you. Now it makes sense. Looks like run_speech_recognition_seq2seq.py was meant as a more abstract training script, not specifically for Whisper, so they kept that toggle to support other models.

By the way, which AI are you using? Looks like Gemini 3 Pro is too lazy and does not actually investigate the most credible documentation of the model, so quite often its “grounded search“ links lead to very remotely related things and not to what Gemini claims.