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Show HN: Whisper transcribes 70-year-olds more accurately than 20-year-olds
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Technical analysis of OpenAI's Whisper model reveals that it transcribes speech from elderly individuals more accurately than from younger adults. However, the study notes that elderly speakers are frequently interrupted by systems using fixed silence thresholds for turn-taking.
Voice agents are being pointed at elderly callers, and the assumed risk is that speech recognition will not hear them. That assumption is wrong, and it is hiding the failure that is actually happening.
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