Transcript Correction

A transcript is a record of what a person said. If an AI “fixes” it into what the person should have said, it is no longer a record. I learned this on my own archive of Korean sermon recordings. The Need: Fix the Mistakes, Keep the Speaker Speech-to-text gets Bible words wrong. It writes a hardship word for a different hardship word, a town name as nonsense, a book of the Bible as another book. For a searchable archive, that matters, because people search for those names. ...

I like the idea of running my own AI. No bill, no data leaving my house. So when I needed to clean up a long transcript, I tried the local way first. The result changed my mind about when “free and local” is worth it. The Need: Speech-to-Text Gets Names Wrong Whisper turns a Korean sermon into text very well, but it makes a certain kind of mistake. It hears Bible words as ordinary words. A town name becomes a nonsense word. A book of the Bible becomes a different book. And one example I like: the Korean word for Psalms, sipyeon (시편), sounds almost like “ten pyeon” (10편). Whisper wrote “10” where the speaker said “Psalms”. ...