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Whisper transcribes silence as "Thanks for watching!", so we wrote a function that calls it silence

Two small pieces of our interview practice product exist entirely because the platform lies to us in predictable ways. One is speech-to-text on a recording with no speech in it. The other is getUserMedia telling a user "Permission denied" when the actual problem is that Zoom still has the camera. S…

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  1. 2026-11-02 10:43 · DEV Community — AI
    Whisper transcribes silence as "Thanks for watching!", so we wrote a function that calls it silence

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