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The 2019 paper argues that automatic punctuation should favor precision over recall, because readers can add a missing mark in their heads more easily than remove a wrong one.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“We suppose that precision is more crucial in this sense than recall, i.e. false detections should be minimized, and human reader should rather be required to insert missing punctuations ... than eliminating incorrect ones”
An Audio-based Sequential Punctuation Model for ASR and its Effect on Human Readability, Gyorgy Szaszak, Acta Polytechnica Hungarica, 2019, Section 1, Introduction.
Open the original- What it measures
- Introduction of a 2019 journal paper on punctuation in speech recognition output.
- What it does not show
- The argument comes from the authors' reasoning and listening tests on Hungarian, not a measured typing task.