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Cohere Transcribe: Speech Recognition

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Re: Cohere Transcribe: Speech Recognition

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Post by geooff_ »

I can't say enough nice things about Cohere's services. I migrated over to their embedding model a few months ago for clip-style embeddings and it's been fantastic.

It has the most crisp, steady P50 of any external service I've used in a long time.

Re: Cohere Transcribe: Speech Recognition

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Post by dinakernel »

My worry is that ASR will end up like OCR. If the multi modal large AI system is good enough (latency wise), the advantage of domain understanding eats the other technlogies alive.

In OCR, even when the characters are poorly scanned, the deep domain understanding these large multi modal AIs have allows it to understand what the document actually meant - this is going to be order id because in the million invoices I have seen before order id is normally below order date - etc. The same issue is going to be there in ASR also is my worry.

Re: Cohere Transcribe: Speech Recognition

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Post by bluegatty »

geooff_ wrote: post #2

I can't say enough nice things about Cohere's services. I migrated over to their embedding model a few months ago for clip-style embeddings and it's been fantastic. It has the most crisp, steady P50 of any external service I've used in a long time.

can u comment on overall quality? their models tend to be a bit smaller and less performant overall.

Re: Cohere Transcribe: Speech Recognition

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Post by progbits »

dinakernel wrote: post #4

My worry is that ASR will end up like OCR. If the multi modal large AI system is good enough (latency wise), the advantage of domain understanding eats the other technlogies alive. In OCR, even when the characters are poorly scanned, the deep domain understanding these large multi modal AIs have allows it to understand what the document actually meant - this is going to be order id because in the million invoices I h…

This is both good and bad. Good ASR can often understand low quality / garbled speech that I could not figure out, but it also "over corrects" sometimes and replaces correct but low prior words with incorrect but much more common ones.

With OCR the risk is you get another xerox[1] incident where all your data looks plausible but is incorrect. Hope you kept the originals!

(This is why for my personal doc scans, I use OCR only for full text search, but retain the original raw scans forever)

[1] https://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres...

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