I'm surprised the word error rate is that low (in native speakers) - have you tried transcribing a natural conversation in your native language? A lot of commu

I'm surprised the word error rate is that low (in native speakers) - have you tried transcribing a natural conversation in your native language? A lot of communication happens non-verbally. A lot of redundancy in language means that parsing the exact word that was said doesn't matter: the meaning is still understood. 50% might mean you are only picking up common functional words, 75% means you are mostly getting the gist of the conversation, but 95% is really plenty to follow everything that's going on.