Podcast Outtakes

As you might have observed if you visited my official podcast site, The Pulp Writer Show, recently I have employed a transcriptionist to generate transcripts for the show.

She uploads the MP3 of the episode into an AI transcription service, and then listen to the episode while reading over the AI-generated transcript to fix any mistakes the AI might have made.

As it turns out, there are a LOT of mistakes. (This is a good reminder that if you rely on AI transcription without having a human look at it first, you might be in a lot of trouble down the road.) The bald fact is that while AI transcription has come a long way, it still isn’t terribly good.

Here’s one significant example. My podcast is called the “Pulp Writer Show,” and so at the start of every episode, I saw “welcome to the Pulp Writer Show.” The AI sometimes interprets this in creative ways.

Here are just some of the other things the transcription AI thinks the show is called:

Pallbearer Show
Pulp Rider Show
Polite Show/Politer Show
Pulp Burning Show
The Paul Brenner
Paul Brother Show
The Paul printer show
The Pulp Murder Show
Pop writer show
Pulp Runner Show
The Whole writer Show
pup Orator show
pulp Better show
pulp Reader show
The bull rider. Show
pulse reader show
The pope here now
They’ll pop ride share

I have to admit while “The Bull Rider Show” does sound more entertaining than what I actually do, and getting The Pope as an interview guest would be quite a coup, I’m afraid the transcription AI has a ways to go.

-JM