whisper-heb-v7-multi (Hebrew / English / Arabic / Russian / Yiddish with built-in language ID) plus speech-free negatives: the model has learned to answer with nothing on line noise, hold music, tones and silence instead of inventing words. Same architecture (Whisper large-v3-turbo, 809M), same languages, same usage; drop-in replacement for v7. On telephony audio Whisper fine-tunes hallucinate short phrases when there is no speech. v7 produced a transcript for 98% of real line-noise clips (27% of them "תודה רבה") and 46% of synthetic noise. v8 was warm-started from v7 and trained 5,000 steps on the v7 corpus plus 83,920 speech-free rows (real Voicenter line noise ×4, synthetic…