When haemophilia becomes human failure: Adventures in AI transcription

Artificial intelligence, or AI, touches our lives in many ways. Its ability to work accurately and at a rapid pace has incredibly valuable applications in medicine and healthcare. At the other end of the scale, it can also automate time-consuming tasks, delivering results in a fraction of the time it would take a human. 

Haemnet conducts many research interviews online, using a platform with the capacity to produce AI-generated transcripts. On one hand, this offers a timesaving option – but there’s a big caveat. Reading the raw AI transcripts is often a source of raised eyebrows among the research team, not least when ‘haemophilia’ becomes ‘human failure’.

Misheard mistakes

The truth is that AI doesn’t really cope well with regional accents and comes up with ‘best guesses’ for terms or names that don’t compute. We never rely solely on AI to handle our transcripts and analyses, because specialist, ‘hands-on’ knowledge and our understanding of nuance can, in many circumstances, beat AI hands down. AI provides tools that can be helpful to use – not the ultimate solution.

Over recent months, we’ve been collating AI mis-transcriptions from our research. Alongside mis-hearings, these include completely made up words – and they can sometimes be very funny. 

As 2025 creeps towards a close, we’d like to share some of our favourite AI mis-transcriptions. A glossary is provided at the end.

On haemophilia, AI style

Pleading disorders include human failure and one villa band disease. Although one villa band disease is more common, human failure is perhaps most well known.

Human failure A is caused by a lack of fax rate, which results in the blood not clotting properly. A range of treatments are now available. These include standard half-life factor concentrates, such as Ad Bait, and longer-acting factor concentrates such as Ultravox and A Locked Door, which are given intravenously. When giving intrinus treatment it is important to eat the vein correctly. This can be difficult in children with pleading disorders, and use of a porter calf (or ‘pork’) can be helpful. 

The development of novel treatments including factor mimetics, which can be given subcutaneously, have helped ease the burden of intrinus treatment. These include Him Libra (emesuzabam) and Choose Around.

Heinflea centres offer specialist care for people with pleading disorders. These might be focused in particular on adults or children, e.g. Burnam Insurance Hospital, or treat people with pleading disorders of all ages, e.g. Basing State. Many people with pleading disorders find that seeking treatment at a low-cost spot can be difficult. 

Glossary

A Locked Door (also A Doctor, A Lopter): Elocta

Ad Bait (also Ad Rate): Advate

Basing State: Basingstoke

Burnham Insurance Hospital: Birmingham Children’s Hospital

Choose Around: Fitusiran

Eat the vein: Hit the vein

Emesuzabam: Emicizumab

Heinflea centre (also Hinkhelia centre): Haemophilia centre

Him Libra (also Him Leaving, Him Liberate): Hemlibra

Human failure: Haemophilia 

Intrinus: Intravenous

Low-cost spot: Local hospital

One villa band disease: von Willebrand disease

Pleading disorder: Bleeding disorder

Porter calf (or Pork; also Photo calf): Port-a-Cath (or Port)

Ultravox (also Ultracock): Altuvoct

About the author

Kathryn Jenner is Communications and Community Manager at Haemnet Ltd.