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I love how one of the selling points of my phone (which was all the smart "AI" crap, one of which being the ability to transcribe a recording) completely falls apart the moment it's not an American talking directly into the microphone.... I don't think it's actually understood anything I've tried to use it for, even in person and very clear discussions. But my favourites are trying to record train announcements:
"Now arriving at Berwick [Berrick]" > "now I'm riding ash ferric"
"Next [unintelligible] is Narre Warren station " > "best mattresses marijuana station"
"Berwick [Berrick]" > "Spheric"
And bonus from Sydney: "Saint Peters" became "simp penis"
I always used to think "automatic transcription is hard, mistakes are inevitable" until I realised even the most noisy mumbly country-accented American speech gets transcribed basically perfectly on YouTube and other places.