Misra: Whisper and standard transcription models perform poorly in Arabic
Gaurav Misra · From Selfie to Studio: Captions CEO on AI Video for 10M Creators · Feb 20, 2025 · at 38:16
Gaurav Misra is the CEO of Captions. He is discussing the limitations of open-source AI transcription tools when handling lower-resource languages.
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“Whisper doesn't work in Arabic that well. Right. So we had to figure out how to make something work in Arabic, but it can't be bad because Almost all transcription is bad in Arabic, right? There's just not enough training that's been done on that language.”
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