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Where is human phonetic expertise still needed in modern Speech AI?

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With ASR and speech models improving rapidly, I'm trying to understand where trained phoneticians still provide value in commercial Speech AI projects. Which tasks still genuinely require human phonetic expertise rather than general language annotators or automated tools? For example, I'm thinking…

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  1. 2026-09-02 08:15 · r/LanguageTechnology
    Where is human phonetic expertise still needed in modern Speech AI?

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