Transcripts are used successfully in many areas of contemporary society. However, some
uses of transcripts show systemic problems, with significant negative consequences. The …

There is a growing body of literature on forensic transcription of covert recordings obtained
by clandestine law enforcement operations. Due to the nature of these operations, the …

Common measures of accuracy used to assess the performance of automatic speech
recognition (ASR) systems, as well as human transcribers, conflate multiple sources of error …

This study provides an update on an earlier study in the “Capturing Talk” research topic,
which aimed to demonstrate how automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems work with …

Word error rate (WER) as a metric has a variety of limitations that have plagued the field of
speech recognition. Evaluation datasets suffer from varying style, formality, and inherent …

This paper focuses on the serious but not well-acknowledged problem related to legal
transcript production in SNNPRS High Courts. It sheds light on how distortions of content are …

This paper focuses on the serious but not well-acknowledged problem related to legal
transcript production in SNNPRS High Courts. It sheds light on how distortions of content are …

Covert recordings provide powerful evidence in criminal trials, but are often of extremely
poor quality. Many jurisdictions allow the court to be assisted by a police transcript, but these …

As automatic speech recognition (ASR) has improved, it has become a viable tool for
content transcription. Prior to the use of ASR for this task, content transcription was achieved …

• A conversation between five adults in a busy restaurant was recorded on a smart phone. It
shares many of the typical features of forensic recordings, including the presence of multiple …