A speech-to-text practitioner’s criticisms of industry and academia

Re:A speech-to-text practitioner’s criticisms of industry an... by gok on Monday April 06, 2020 @12:01AM (#22790813)

Facebook released a pretty impressive SOTA system with public data sources a few weeks ago

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Re:A speech-to-text practitioner’s criticisms of industry an... by nmfisher on Monday April 06, 2020 @02:40AM (#22791375)

Are you talking about wav2letter@anywhere?

If so, I haven't dug deeply yet, but I suspect the author's point stands - inference-time efficiency is one thing, but training compute (and separately, data-efficiency) is another.

I don't think the author is necessarily criticizing anyone, and I don't think he/she is saying that these tools/models/papers/etc aren't welcome. My read is that "pushing STT beyond the FAANG use-case means we should stop confining ourselves to FAANG-scale data and models".

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Re:A speech-to-text practitioner’s criticisms of industry an... by gok on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @12:45PM (#22804834)

Particularly https://github.com/facebookresearch/wav2letter/blob/master/r...

It uses a publicly available huge training set

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Re:A speech-to-text practitioner’s criticisms of industry an... by triztian on Monday April 06, 2020 @02:09AM (#22791253)

What does "SOTA" mean in this context; all I could find is "Software Over the Air" but I'm unsure of what it means in a Speech to Text context

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Re:A speech-to-text practitioner’s criticisms of industry an... by wodenokoto on Monday April 06, 2020 @02:20AM (#22791296)

“State of the art”.

But I think your original question is still great:

What does state of the art mean in this context?

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Re:A speech-to-text practitioner’s criticisms of industry an... by probably_wrong on Monday April 06, 2020 @02:19AM (#22791290)

It means "State of the art", which would be roughly equivalent to "as good a result as its currently possible"

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