Out of curiosity, does anyone know what the state of the art for transcription is? Is there a possibility it will soon be "better than a person carefully listening and manually transcribing"?

I ask because I asked a friend to record a (for fun) lecture I couldn't attend, and unfortunately the speech audio levels are quite low, and I'm trying to figure out how to extract as much info as possible so I can hear it. If I could add context to the transcriber like "This is about the Bronze Age collapse and uses terminology commonly used in discussions on that topic", it might be even more useful.