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		rhdunn 5 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Voxtral Transcribe 2 It can depend a lot on different factors like: - familiarity with the accent and/or speaker; - speed and style/cadence of the speech; - any other audio that is happening that can muffle or distort the audio; - etc. It can also take multiple passes to get a decent transcription.

qingcharles 4 days ago [–]

You missed a giant factor: domain knowledge. Transcribing something outside of your knowledge realm is very hard. I posted above about transcribing the commentary of a motorbike race where the commentators only used the slang names of the riders.

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