Is transcription a form of _inference_ though? I mean I see the word being thrown around and I understand what it means (or at least I think I do) in context of LLMs doing the thing that they do -- intelligently predict the next token, but do speech-to-text models do that?
Speech-to-text models predict the next token of text from the preceding tokens of text and the current tokens of speech.
Thanks, I did some learning and it fell more into place.