impossible → routine
Transcription at human accuracy
Transcribing ordinary recorded conversation about as accurately as a person does.
Impossible
Microsoft researchers report the first human-parity error rate on the standard Switchboard task.
5.9% word error rate
source6 years, 1 month
Routine
OpenAI releases Whisper's models and inference code, reporting accuracy and robustness approaching human transcribers.
trained on 680,000 hours of audio; weights public
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