Yes and as you say, you don't need interpretability for those use cases. You need performance, as in most situations. Also, people cannot explain why they heard

Yes and as you say, you don't need interpretability for those use cases. You need performance, as in most situations. Also, people cannot explain why they heard a sentence, they just heard it. So explainability doesn't really mean anything in speech recognition. Performance is key, and dragon was used because it was better.