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Just an important note, speech to text models aren’t LLMs, which are literally “conversational” or “text generation from other text” models. Things like https://github.com/openai/whisper are their own, separate types of models, specifically for transcription.
That being said, I totally agree, accessibility is an objectively good use for “AI”
Yeah, transcription is one of the only good uses for LLMs imo. Of course they can still produce nonsense, but bad subtitles are better none at all.
Just an important note, speech to text models aren’t LLMs, which are literally “conversational” or “text generation from other text” models. Things like https://github.com/openai/whisper are their own, separate types of models, specifically for transcription.
That being said, I totally agree, accessibility is an objectively good use for “AI”