Transcribe-Critic – Merge transcript sources for stronger transcript
Textual-criticism approach to transcript merging beats single-model Whisper on accuracy alone.

Textual-criticism approach to transcript merging beats single-model Whisper on accuracy alone.
Tests Deepgram and AssemblyAI on actual crosstalk instead of clean audiobook samples.
Phoneme-level scoring under 17MB beats commercial tools, but unclear if it generalizes beyond English.
Local Whisper in browser when Whisper.cpp and web-whisper already exist.
CoreML models on Apple Neural Engine beat Whisper.cpp for on-device transcription.
M-Pesa payments and Kenyan English optimization in a crowded Otter.ai market.