Interesting, that's good to know, my personal experience was that transcribe handled accents very poorly, but if whisper can handle radio static maybe it can also decipher thick scottish
On the original blog post announcing Whisper there was a demo ("Accent" under the drop-down) of it transcribing a Scottish accent. https://openai.com/blog/whisper/
Whisper has done extremely well for me with a number of challenging audio transcriptions: background noise, heavy accents, music playing... you name it.