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>>meetpa+(OP)
Is it me or error rate of 3% is really high?

If you transcribe a minute of conversation, you'll have like 5 words transcribed wrongly. In an hour podcast, that is 300 wrongly transcribed words.

>>XCSme+4z
The error rate for human transcription can be as high as 5%.

>>cootsn+Vz
Oh wow, I thought humans are like 0.1% error rate, if they are native speakers and aware of the subject being discussed.

>>XCSme+LB
I was skepitcal upon hearing the figure but various sources do indeed back it up and [0] is a pretty interesting paper (old but still relevant human transcibers haven't changed in accuracy).

[0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...

>>zipy12+tS
I think it's actually hard to verify how correct a transcription is, at scale. Curious where those error rate numbers come from, because they should test it on people actually doing their job.