A standalone speech-to-text model may be substantially more accurate at speech recognition than the encoder in a speech-to-speech model.

“regressed a little bit in other parameters right like so for example the speech-to-text accuracies for just a speech-to-text model might be way better than the encoder of a speech-to-speech model that you have and so I think the challenge is that while you made progress on the you know making it more natural and operate more human-like etc etc how could you keep the accuracy bar”

“the same.”