Transcribing my interview tapes with AI felt like magic

I had hours of old interview tapes from a school project that were hard to transcribe. An AI program did the job fast, and I was amazed at how accurate it was. What boring jobs has AI helped with for you?

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the_finley2mo ago

No way it understood speech through that much construction noise.

tyler_morgan2mo ago

Man, that's cool it worked so well for you. I mean, the thing that gets me is when it figures out messy audio, like if someone's talking over bad phone connection or there's background noise. It's wild that it can pick out words from all that chaos when my own ears just hear a jumble. Makes you realize how much hidden work it's doing. Still messes up sometimes of course, but it saves so much time.

emma_jones1mo ago

The noise cancellation on my last work call was so good, it filtered out a barking dog next door. @the_finley, that's the real magic, when it isolates a single voice in pure chaos. The tech is basically doing advanced hearing aid work before we even get the text.

tessap972mo ago

My friend's voicemail had awful construction noise, but the transcript got every word right. @tyler_morgan, it's wild how it picks out the speech from all that chaos.