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Why can accurate speech recognition still produce a wrong action?

Transcription captures words, but a workflow must also resolve references, corrections, authority and timing. A later instruction may replace an earlier one while a tool is already running. The application needs explicit intent and action states so it does not treat an obsolete request as current authorization.

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