Re:My AI skeptic friends are all nuts
by BeetleB on Monday June 02, 2025 @05:41PM
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> Machine translation and speech recognition.
Yes, yes and yes!
I tried speech recognition many times over the years (Dragon, etc). Initially they all were "Wow!", but they simply were not good enough to use. 95% accuracy is not good enough.
Now I use Whisper to record my voice, and have it get passed to an LLM for cleanup. The LLM contribution is what finally made this feasible.
It's not perfect. I still have to correct things. But only about a tenth of the time I used to. When I'm transcribing notes for myself, I'm at the point I don't even bother verifying the output. Small errors are OK for my own notes.
Re:My AI skeptic friends are all nuts
by n8cpdx on Monday June 02, 2025 @09:02PM
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Have they solved the problem of Whisper making up plausible sounding junk (e.g. such that reading it you would have no idea it was completely hallucinated) when there is any silence or pause in the audio?
Yes, yes and yes!
I tried speech recognition many times over the years (Dragon, etc). Initially they all were "Wow!", but they simply were not good enough to use. 95% accuracy is not good enough.
Now I use Whisper to record my voice, and have it get passed to an LLM for cleanup. The LLM contribution is what finally made this feasible.
It's not perfect. I still have to correct things. But only about a tenth of the time I used to. When I'm transcribing notes for myself, I'm at the point I don't even bother verifying the output. Small errors are OK for my own notes.