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Coverage Is Not Capability: What Whisper Taught Me About African Speech

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A language appearing in a model’s supported list says little about whether the model will work for your speakers. Why Whisper struggled with the speech I needed, and what I now check before building on any speech model.* When I built the first version of Scribe AI in July 2026, speech recognition w…

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  1. 2026-10-27 21:01 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    Coverage Is Not Capability: What Whisper Taught Me About African Speech

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