Just curious, why are drug names such a disaster? Do LLMs not understand pronunciation keys?
Drug names are frequently BS loaded with strange consonants without singular pronunciation guidelines (sadly English isn't German) so humans already have a lot of variation in how things are pronounced - models then need to comprehend those variations, regional dialects (like those fuggin' ahs from Boston).
It ends up being quite a lot of variation.
As some examples: Wegovy, Ixempra, Qvar, Keflex
People pronounce drug names all sorts of ways, and there's a lot of them (with a steady trickle of new ones)
Trademarks.
And the patients generally don't have a pronunciation key. Doctors prescribing might not, either.