https://www.kolwrite.com/research/ Evidence-led explanations of speech recognition, multilingual audio, accessibility, and the decisions that turn a recording into dependable text. en Fri, 04 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://www.kolwrite.com/research/how-ai-transcription-works/ https://www.kolwrite.com/research/how-ai-transcription-works/ Modern transcription is not a machine ‘hearing words’. It is a chain of probability estimates—from the waveform, through learned speech representations, to language, speakers, and time. Speech recognition Fri, 04 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://www.kolwrite.com/research/transcription-accuracy-is-not-one-number/ https://www.kolwrite.com/research/transcription-accuracy-is-not-one-number/ Word error rate is useful—but a transcript can score well and still fail the exact task you hired it to do. A fair comparison measures the recording, the workflow, and the cost of correction. Evaluation Fri, 04 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://www.kolwrite.com/research/captions-transcripts-accessibility/ https://www.kolwrite.com/research/captions-transcripts-accessibility/ A transcript, a subtitle track, and an accessibility caption file may share words, but they solve different problems. Publishing the right one requires timing, sound information, readable layout, and review. Accessibility Fri, 04 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT