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Re:Open Steno Project – Freeing stenography by mkl on Friday October 29, 2021 @04:04AM (#29036341)
Speech recognition is terrible on specialised vocabulary, strong accents, low quality audio, etc. You can train it, but only if you have transcriptions of your audio. Steno is a good way to make transcriptions.

I have mathematics education videos I would like subtitles for, all in non-US, non-UK accents, full of specialised terminology. In my tests, Amazon and Google's APIs were completely useless for this, as was Dragon. If I find the time, I would like to learn steno of some sort to make the subtitles and provide training data for future videos.

Re:Open Steno Project – Freeing stenography by Aeolun on Friday October 29, 2021 @07:02AM (#29037188)
Amazon’s API fails any time someone uses a slightly less than super common name. It was really depressing.
Re:Open Steno Project – Freeing stenography by snugghash on Saturday October 30, 2021 @01:34AM (#29046235)
Is Otter.ai's tech any better?