Barbara Wallraff is a writer and editor in Cambridge. She writes The Wordshop on Substack. The challenge last time was to name voice-to-text transcription errors — for example, you ask your bot “How ...

Contributed by Elliot L. Elson; received June 9, 2025; accepted August 29, 2025; reviewed by Baohua Ji, M. Taher A. Saif, and Assaf Zemel ...