Scandinavian are quite different between each others as well.

Wouldn’t it be easier to do those as stacked PRs then?

Yeah, I’ve built many one-off scripts in my day, and these days they take 100x less time.

Not to mention it’s a topic most if not all people have an innate strong opinion about based on their lived experiences!

The books in Swedish primary school are tiny, no worries about that.

Sounds interesting! Any good sources on that subject? I find results pointing both against it and for it, but am not a psychologist.

Does any of these solutions work reliably for non-English languages? I’ve had a lot of issues trying to transcribe Swedish with all the products I’ve used so far.

Parakeet doesn't work ? https://huggingface.co/nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3

If you are willing to use a service for transcriptions, Mistral (which is also European) works rather nicely if they support your language https://docs.mistral.ai/capabilities/audio_transcription#tra...

Try ottex with Gemini 3 flash as a transcription model. I'm bilingual as well and frequently switch between languages - Gemini handles this perfectly and even the case when I speak two languages in one transcription.

It’s like instructing a toddler.

I recall that early LLMs had the problem of not understanding the word "not", which became especially evident and problematic when tasked with summarizing text because the summary would then sometimes directly contradict the original text.

It seems that that problem hasn't really been "fixed", it's just been paved over. But I guess that's the ugly truth most people tend to forget/deny about LLMs: you can't "fix" them because there's not a line of code you can point to that causes a "bug", you can only retrain them and hope the problem goes away. In LLMs, every bug is a "heisenbug" (or should that be "murphybug", as in Murphy's Law?).

Same thing happens for humans:

"Don't think of a green elephant"

Alan Watts talked of this concept where the harder you try to suppress a thought or sensation, the more mental energy you give it, making it stronger.

i definitely have gone so far as to treat my llm readable docs in this way and have found it very effective

IRC never died.

It doesn’t have to be, really. Even if it could replace 30% of documentation and SO scrounging, that’s pretty valuable. Especially since you can offload that and go take a coffee.