Turning sound into the right words is trickier than it looks. Words are made of little sound-pieces called phonemes — and the AI uses a language model to guess what makes sense, because lots of words sound the same!
Every word is a chain of little sounds (phonemes). Tap the pieces left-to-right, then blend them into the whole word and hear it. Complete 3 words!
Lots of words sound exactly the same! So how does the AI know which you meant? It uses the context — the other words around it. Read each sentence and pick the word that makes sense.
The AI's language model guesses which word fits best — that's how it fixes mistakes and picks real words over nonsense. Be the language model: pick the word that makes sense!
You learned the AI's real secret for understanding speech: break sound into phonemes, then use a language model and context to pick the words that make sense.