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by fabiensnauwaert 1114 days ago
And, well… "glass half-empty or glass half-full?"

Speech recognition is far from perfect but even then it's incredibly useful. It CAN be infuriating (or downright hilarious). Hell, it's infuriating when occasionally a (human!) waiter switches to English after I mangled a sound in Hungarian, even though I'm C1/advanced in the language.

Problem or opportunity? Like someone else pointed out, the limitations of speech-to-text can be turned into an opportunity to improve one's pronunciation. It's getting extremely good for native speakers. As foreign speakers it's a chance to improve.

In any case, I'm sure I can add a layer or two to the code to reduce misunderstandings. This is actually exciting!

p.s. as mentioned in the OP, feedback on pronunciation is planned (actually in the works).

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Yep exactly right. Awesome product you're building, I'm sure so many people can get value out of this