Re:Someone has to say it: Voice assistants are not doing it ...
by ghaff on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @10:23AM
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I find the ML transcription services, given 2 people speaking English with high quality sound and without heavy accents/a lot of jargon, to be adequate for having a skimmable record--such as for extracting quotations. But if I'm publishing a transcript I get a human transcription. Cleaning up the ML stuff takes way too much time and I wouldn't publish a transcript without cleaning it up.
Re:Someone has to say it: Voice assistants are not doing it ...
by simiones on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @10:50AM
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I was in fact looking at some transcriptions of my recent meetings, and found one that captures how even small mistakes can make for completely not-understandable transcripts, unless they are manually cleaned up.
Manual transcription:
> So no: long story short, Slum is basically the way we can have an individual [, uhhh,] instance that carries all the licenses.
(Slum is a project name in this case)
Computer transcription (MS Teams):
> So no.
> A long story shorts. Love is basically the way we can have an individual.
> OHS instance that carries all the license.
This is potentially far from true, depending on how exactly you draw the line between "voice recognition" and "language". I've looked at quite a few transcription services, and they fail a lot of the time for most people - those who either have a non-native accent (even if very slight!) or those who do any amount of stammering or other vocal tics.