alt Hacker NewsIt can depend a lot on different factors like:
- familiarity with the accent and/or speaker;
- speed and style/cadence of the speech;
- any other audio that is happening that can muffle or distort the audio;
- etc.
It can also take multiple passes to get a decent transcription.
You missed a giant factor: domain knowledge. Transcribing something outside of your knowledge realm is very hard. I posted above about transcribing the commentary of a motorbike race where the commentators only used the slang names of the riders.