Official documentation
Model adaptation (Speech-to-Text)
Google Cloud documentation, n.d.
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- What it is
- Google Cloud's guide to model adaptation: phrase sets that bias the recognizer toward words you supply, and the boost setting that changes how strongly they count.
- How much weight it carries
- Official vendor documentation, read on the accessed date. It describes a cloud service, not an on-device dictation engine. Effects vary by language and audio.
Facts taken from this source
- Google's model adaptation boost feature increases the recognition model's bias toward some phrases more than others.
“The model adaptation boost feature lets you increase the recognition model bias by assigning more weight to some phrases than others” (Fine-tune transcription results using boost)
- Google says model adaptation by default has a relatively small effect on recognition, especially for one-word phrases.
“By default model adaptation provides a relatively small effect, especially for one-word phrases” (Fine-tune transcription results using boost)
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