voice recognition improvement

voice recognition is not great right now, especially for foreign names, AST names, companies, etc. "arguably the most important" — improving this could be very impactful. this is a critical dependency for the always-on AI assistant and the brain rewinder which both rely on accurate transcription.

spreadsheet evaluation: excitement 5/10. tech depth 7/10, labeled [ARCHIVE] ("research problem, not a 2mo project"). while technically deep, this is a massive scope problem best suited for dedicated research labs.

timeline

• [2026-03-14] captured — foreign name recognition as key gap
• [2026-04-10] google sheets evaluation — 5/10 excitement, [ARCHIVE] tier (research problem)