My AI has wax in its ears.
That. Or it’s just NOT that good at figuring out product names.
Using AI audio transcription is supposed to be saving me time.
But it’s not doing such a good job, when the words it comes up with make me…
CRACK UP! 🤣
You see…
AI transcription tools like rev.com are BRILLIANT. I love them for writing emails.
And it does a pretty solid job of getting the words right.
But for names of products?
BZZT!
Another story is the voice-to-text typing on my phone. Which is LUDICROUSLY abysmal.
I think its AI brain is particularly small — or non-existent.
So if I don’t keep an eye on it while I speak. And correct as I go. It often ends up with a stream of gobbledygook!
Many an email or product idea I had to throw in the trash when I came back to read it later.
But my latest guffaws are from using Descript.
While it’s an UNBELIEVABLE tool for saving me so much time with audio and video editing…
It’s also HILARIOUS what it “hears” for the names of people and products.
One example…
While I was recording a video about ThriveCart and BerserkerMail the other day…
The transcription once again distracted the hell out of me!
Descript’s efforts usually came up with “bazooka mail.” For BerserkerMail.
Sometimes “bazooka male.” (😲)
Or “bazooka a mail!”
Umm…
If anyone has THAT inclination toward my emails… it might be healthier for everyone, if you just hit “unsubscribe!”
Now…
ThriveCart is a word it doesn’t butcher quite as much.
So sometimes it gets, “thrivecart.”
Which, even with wrong capitalization, is close enough for a ✔
Or it’s “thrive cut.”
But, my favorite… “thrive cat.” 😹
I’m sure I’ll figure out some way to train them to spell things like this correctly.
(But secretly I want to see what sort of creative names emanate from these AI brains next 🤓)
Eventually… I finished editing the video.