Writing
Notes on building a transcription tool, including where ours falls over. We publish the failure modes because finding one in print is worse than reading about it here.
When "auto-detect language" quietly translates instead of transcribing
In bilingual recordings, automatic language detection can hand you fluent English for something that was said in Chinese — and because the output reads perfectly, nobody catches it.
·9 min
Why a three-hour interview comes back with eleven speakers
Speaker labels drift on long recordings, and the reason isn't that the model is bad at voices. It's that long audio gets cut into pieces, and each piece counts from one.
·6 min
What "99% accurate" actually means
Every transcription company advertises the same number. Here's where it comes from, why your recording won't reproduce it, and the question worth asking instead.
·7 min