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5-20percent
Zayats and colleagues report that a quality checking pass improved the average transcription error rate by 5 to 20 percent.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“with a quality checking pass improving the average error rate by 5-20%”
Disfluencies and Human Speech Transcription Errors, Vicky Zayats et al., arXiv, 2019, Introduction.
Open the original- What it measures
- The authors cite earlier work on careful and quick transcription of telephone conversation and say the gap depends on how careful the transcribers were.
- What it does not show
- The 5 to 20 percent figure comes from an earlier study they cite, not from their own experiment.