# ASR Projects at AI Tinkerers

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Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) converts spoken audio into digital text using neural networks like OpenAI’s Whisper or Google’s USM.

ASR technology bridges the gap between human speech and machine processing by leveraging deep learning architectures (specifically Transformers) to transcribe audio in real-time. Modern systems like Whisper handle 680,000 hours of multilingual data to achieve human-level word error rates (WER) across diverse accents and noisy environments. This tech powers everything from Tesla’s voice commands to Zoom’s live captioning, processing raw waveforms into structured data at sub-second latencies. By utilizing large-scale weak supervision, current ASR models eliminate the need for manual fine-tuning, making high-fidelity transcription accessible for global enterprise applications.

- Official technology site: https://openai.com/research/whisper
- Public AI Tinkerers demos and talks: 2
- Result page: 1 of 1

## Recent Public Talks and Demos

### [AI agents as interface layer for mobile apps](https://tiruchirappalli.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_qrJiLeqgTOo)

Mobile interfaces are reaching their limit. More features mean more screens, more taps, and more friction. This talk explores a different direction. AI agents not as assistants bolted onto apps, but as the interface itself. Through a live demo of Kuralit, I show how user intent can bypass traditional UI and directly trigger real actions inside an app. No buttons. No navigation trees. Just intent to execution. This is not about voice for convenience. It is about interface evolution. From visual control to intent-driven software. The goal is to question a simple assumption. If software can understand what a user wants, why does it still wait for clicks?

- Event context: AI Tinkerers Trichy: January Meetup & Live Demos — 2026-01-31 — Tiruchirappalli
- Public talk page: https://tiruchirappalli.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_qrJiLeqgTOo

### [ScenePartner](https://atlanta.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_UJVuMrdS3HY)

ScenePartner is a tool for actors that lets them run lines with voice AI.

- Event context: AI Tinkerers Atlanta January Meetup — 2025-01-23 — Atlanta
- Public talk page: https://atlanta.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_UJVuMrdS3HY

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