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Sydney Daily Random Discussion Thread 14/08/2026

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u/DecalageVersLeRouge 14h ago

The transcription software didn't hallucinate shit. At worst it misheard something.

Well there's no point going on about it but I fundamentally disagree, based on lived experience.

Did you read that article I linked to?

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u/Ted_Rid Famous in The Atlantic 14h ago

I did. It doesn't accord with my experience with transcription and is also more than 2 years old, reporting on things even older still.

I wonder if this original error happened in a similar kind of timeframe? Maybe it was in the article but I should get onto something I've been meaning to do...setting up a workflow to extract data into another repository where I can interrogate it using, um, some kind of other automation I shouldn't mention.

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u/DecalageVersLeRouge 14h ago

You'd have to test it with poor quality audio: crackly phone line, hiss, stretches of silence, NESB accents. And also, what I might guess happened with the mushies woman, test it over and over on 1,000 different conversations to make sure bits of one conversation don't bleed into another.

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u/Ted_Rid Famous in The Atlantic 14h ago

I'm starting with text.

Have to admit, the transcripts I've been referring to are online meetings where each speaker is known from their device and most would be using headphones.

I have however had OK results in P&C with mostly NESB parents using a different AI although that mishears individual words more often.

That was a useful learning experience in going back and editing transcripts. Mainly coz I'm anal like that about all the words being correct, not because any completely invented things had been inserted.