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A problem most people don't think about when talking about transcription is that people don't talk like books. Not only do you get unfinished sentences and fill
by hnbad 6y ago
A problem most people don't think about when talking about transcription is that people don't talk like books. Not only do you get unfinished sentences and filler words, you also get garbled words, non-standard pronunciation, and so on.
In the case of pronunciation this primarily poses a problem with detecting the intended word, but in other cases "cleaning up" the output may lose contextual information (e.g. what a speaker was going to say before cutting themselves off and using a different word). This is difficult enough for a human to get right, let alone a machine.
- rob74 6y agoAlso, when transcription programs (most familiar example: YouTube) fail, they usually fail on the words that a human listener would also have trouble understanding / telling apart. So the transcription is useful if you are deaf or forced to watch the video without sound, but if you're using subtitles because your English is not good enough to understand the speakers without them, their usefulness is pretty limited...