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99% Isn’t Enough: How Speechmatics Is Fixing ASR

99% Isn’t Enough: How Speechmatics Is Fixing ASR

Update: 2026-04-02
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In this episode of the Convo AI World Podcast, host Hermes interviews Ricardo Herreros Symons from Speechmatics to explore the evolving landscape of speech recognition and its role as the essential gateway to "LLM magic". The conversation delves into the technical hurdles that prevent speech from being a truly "solved" problem—such as background noise, diverse accents, and specialized terminology—and why Speechmatics prioritizes diarization as a critical requirement for security and accuracy in high-stakes industries like healthcare and finance.

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99% Isn’t Enough: How Speechmatics Is Fixing ASR

99% Isn’t Enough: How Speechmatics Is Fixing ASR

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