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Is that different from "speech-to-text"?

Same thing, but ASR is the 'official' term for it.

I was too afraid to ask!

Not to be confused with "Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response" (ASMR) - a popular category of video on Youtube.

How would they be confused?

This was a clever jape; a good example of a ironic anti-humor. But I don't think you were confused by that ether ;)

clever japes are not desired on HN - there's Reddit for that my friend.

I can't explain the how, but I thought it was the ASMR thing the title referred to.

I think more people actually know what ASMR is as opposed to ASR. Lots of ASMR videos are people speaking/whispering at extremely low volume.

I don't think it's quite out of the realm of the possibility to have interpreted as "Gemini LLM corrects ASMR YouTube transcripts". Because you know..they're whispering so might be hard to understand or transcribe.