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by willcipriano 1608 days ago
How do you know what word is garbled?
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Grammar and context. It'd be closer to dictation than current speech to text, with gpt serving as a "brain" interpreting what you mean in the current context instead of raw input. You could tie in the "natural language to [sql,bash,log parse, regex]" capabilities of gpt-3 and so on.

Obviously it wouldn't be as good as a real person, but it'd be a nice leap to the 95%+ level of accuracy over the 80%ish on high performing commercial STT systems.

...and how do you know which word you meant (even if it's not garbled)?

The number of homonyms (and near-homonyms) in English in huge

It's been a major issue for some users of W3W (eg https://cybergibbons.com/security-2/why-what3words-is-not-su...)