Ask HN: Transcription Software for Thick Accents?

Hi All,

There are thousand of hours of video interviews with Holocaust survivors that were filmed in the 90s on VHS. Many were proficient English speakers who communicated their ideas effectively, but still with pretty thick European accents (plus poor grammar, incomplete sentences, etc.)

Can you recommend any software that can take this into account and create accurate English transcripts?

The goal would be to apply text analysis to this massive corpus to discover any unique insights (e.g. cross-referencing stories and seeing what surfaces).

Thank you!