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Whisper dictation accuracy improved with prompt engineering and post-processing

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The author details their experience improving the accuracy of the Whisper speech-to-text model for personal dictation. They found that many perceived errors were not mishearings but rather issues with filler words, spoken corrections, or number formatting, which could be addressed with a simple post-processing step. Additionally, using an initial prompt phrased as a sentence, rather than a list of terms, significantly improved the recognition of specific technical terms like Kubernetes and PostgreSQL. AI

IMPACT Improved dictation accuracy for specialized vocabulary through prompt engineering and post-processing techniques.

RANK_REASON The item discusses practical improvements and techniques for using an existing AI model (Whisper) for a specific application (dictation), rather than a new release or fundamental research.

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Whisper dictation accuracy improved with prompt engineering and post-processing

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · deepika p ·

    Why Whisper "scores 8% WER" on dictation, and what actually fixed it

    <p>I record dictation: notes to myself, commit messages, short specs, with a lot of product and library names in them. I ran faster-whisper large-v3-turbo over 101 of my own clips and got <strong>8.5% word error rate</strong>. That sounded bad, so I read every error. Most of it w…

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