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Why Whisper and medical speech APIs are making potentially fatal errors

Appen published an analysis warning that OpenAI's Whisper and medical speech APIs are producing transcription errors that can be potentially fatal in clinical settings. Appen cites its own 30 years of AI data expertise, SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certifications, and coverage of 500+ global locales as the basis for its model evaluation work on hallucination benchmarking, bias, and compliance audits.

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Why Whisper and medical speech APIs are making potentially fatal errors
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