I think your job might be safe. AI has been doing speech to text for over a quarter century. It’s been bundled with Windows since XP. And nobody uses it because it has all the same problems that modern AI has.
Well yeah it has but it really sucked at it till things like Whisper came along. You really had to train it to specific speakers and even then you’d have to manually go over everything.
Now running the heaviest whisper model and then an LLM to fix obvious mistakes and you have the same quality a human contractor would deliver. Except it can do a day’s work in 5 minutes.
It was fairly basic, just analyzing audio tracks and extracting the dialogue from them to text. Simple stuff for AI now.
I think your job might be safe. AI has been doing speech to text for over a quarter century. It’s been bundled with Windows since XP. And nobody uses it because it has all the same problems that modern AI has.
https://youtu.be/kTefnhbg0Ig
Well yeah it has but it really sucked at it till things like Whisper came along. You really had to train it to specific speakers and even then you’d have to manually go over everything.
Now running the heaviest whisper model and then an LLM to fix obvious mistakes and you have the same quality a human contractor would deliver. Except it can do a day’s work in 5 minutes.
They were freelance contract jobs, and I haven’t seen anything that easy in a long while 😒
I’m sorry if you lost your job, but if you actually helped improve talking to these damn things then I thank you for your service.