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by alkonaut 492 days ago
Doing audio-to-text requires having a statistical model for what word or phrase a piece of sound is most likely to be. Without context, you can't do better than ranking the most likely candidates where a common word is more likely than an uncommon one. Having a task-specific dictionary at that point would help.

One could also imagine doing it at the summary step where the AI could simply be asked to do phonetic analysis. "Here is a transcription of a meeting. Here is a list of terms/names/participants etc. Given the transcription, the meeting context/topics and assuming the transcriptor has made errors, replace similarly sounding words and terms with more likely ones from the context"