Legal transcription software: where automatic speech recognition stops
8 min Legal transcription software gives you a searchable draft of a deposition or hearing, not a certified transcript. Here is where the line sits.
Accuracy.
Where speech recognition goes wrong, measured, and what fixes it.
Why accents change speech recognition accuracy, and what helps
8 min Speech recognition accents come from the training data, not from the speaker. What the research measures, what it does not, and what actually helps accuracy.
Two-speaker interviews: what speech recognition does and does not do
8 min Whisper speaker diarization is a separate task the model does not do, so a two-speaker interview comes back as one block. Here is how to add the labels.
Why speech recognition invents words in silence, and how to stop it
8 min Whisper hallucination is when the model writes a sign-off or a looping phrase over a pause. Here is why a speech model does that, and five ways to stop it.
How to edit a transcript fast: seven mistakes to fix before you publish
8 min How to edit a transcript fast: the seven mistakes speech recognition makes most, the quickest search for each, the fix, and a time budget per hour of audio.
Improve transcription accuracy: nine ways to record audio that transcribes well
8 min Nine recording habits that improve transcription accuracy: mic distance, one voice at a time, echo, levels, phone placement, file format and a 10-second test.
Subtitle timing is off: why it drifts and how to fix it
7 min Subtitle timing off usually means one of three things: a constant offset, drift that grows through the file, or a few cues out on their own. How to fix each.