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Re:Amazon Echo Dot by ausjke on Thursday March 03, 2016 @11:45AM (#11218021)
https://www.quora.com/Speech-Recognition/Which-is-the-best-o...

There are a few open source alternative, Kaldi is new to me

Re:Amazon Echo Dot by dharma1 on Thursday March 03, 2016 @12:46PM (#11218474)
This one looks promising too, although very early days. https://github.com/srvk/eesen

I think we'll see something state of the art (that runs on mobile devices pretty soon in the open source world.

You also need a good microphone setup to get good quality speech in.

Both Echo and Dot have a 7 mic array with beamforming, which helps a lot with far field speech recognition.