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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
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.

>>rhdunn+1g1
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.