it was an audio recording, transcribed with speech to text models. there's definitely some errors and words lost. I also tried to emphasize this

Thanks for the clarification. Bit ironic given the talk’s subject. It is quite a bit of effort, but there’s something to say for going through and manually writing up the transcript like a journalist. Sometimes you can’t beat human effort ;)

What about a middle ground? Speech-to-text AI with manual corrections?

That’s a great approach! That’s what I meant to convey if I had been a bit more articulate. I assume journalists do exactly that. Takes away some laborious work while retaining accuracy.