A 2019 Guide for Automatic Speech Recognition

Re:A 2019 Guide for Automatic Speech Recognition by jamesonthecrow on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @12:30PM (#20878796)

Obviously the big cloud players offer their own APIs and SDKs (for a price), but there are a few other solutions worth looking at.

Facebook has open sourced some pre-trained models: https://github.com/facebookresearch/wav2letter

Picovoice has some smaller, more efficient models capable of running on edge devices: https://github.com/Picovoice

Full ASR does require quite large models and datasets, but you don't need nearly that much power or data to fine-tune a model for your own domain.

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Re:A 2019 Guide for Automatic Speech Recognition by GordonS on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @01:40PM (#20879548)

Wasn't aware of Picovoice. Just tried the live do they have on their website... wow, it's... not great! Even if I spoke as precisely as possible or/and put on an American accent, it was way off the mark.

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Re:A 2019 Guide for Automatic Speech Recognition by skykooler on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @01:27PM (#20879408)

Ah, thanks, I wasn't aware Picovoice had released an actual engine yet.

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