Re:Facebook open-sources a speech-recognition system and a m...
by lingz on Friday December 21, 2018 @04:22PM
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Librivox is commonly used as a training corpus however it's main weakness is that reading speech differs quite a lot from conversational speech.
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Re:Facebook open-sources a speech-recognition system and a m...
by darkpuma on Friday December 21, 2018 @04:30PM
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I see. I hadn't considered that might be a weakness because to be honest the creation of forced alignments between LibriVox and the source texts was my objective (it's a feature that exists on some Kindle's when pairing ebooks with audible audio books. I believe the feature makes literature more accessible, a noble enough cause. Although I can understand why more effort is being spent on recognizing conversational speech.)