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Re:Amazon Transcribe - Automatic speech recognition by wpietri on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @01:31PM (#15809445)
Agreed. I'm looking at transcribing some of my talks, and even if I had humans do the work I'd be doing my own editing pass. Speech is just different than writing; one needs a good mental model of both speaker and listener to make all the right editorial choices.

Automated recognition strikes me as a good place to start, though, especially for applications like search.

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Re:Amazon Transcribe - Automatic speech recognition by ghaff on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @01:39PM (#15809510)
Yeah, I've used transcription to generate speaker notes or even give me the start of a blog post. It doesn't need to be anywhere near perfect. It's just sometimes easier/faster to get a rough dump of a presentation you're comfortable giving rather than starting with a blank sheet of paper.
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