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AssemblyAI details common transcription errors and mitigation strategies

AssemblyAI has detailed common transcription errors, categorizing them into substitutions, omissions, entity mistakes, and language hallucinations. The company highlighted that while word error rate is a standard metric, the impact of errors varies significantly based on context, with critical data like names, numbers, or the absence of a "not" having severe downstream consequences. AssemblyAI also provided strategies to mitigate these issues, such as explicitly setting language codes and utilizing contextual prompting to improve accuracy, particularly for accented speech and proper nouns. AI

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  1. AssemblyAI blog TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    Handling transcript errors: Homophones, corrections and AI quality improvement

    Homophones, dropped words, wrong-language output, mangled customer names: what actually causes transcription errors, and the settings that fix each one.