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I don't think it will take billions. LSTM+CTC speech recognition implementations are coming to OSS and I think we have large enough available data sets for trai
by dharma1 11y ago
I don't think it will take billions. LSTM+CTC speech recognition implementations are coming to OSS and I think we have large enough available data sets for training without needing Google size resources. Audio books are a good resource for training and it's not hard to amass hundreds or thousands of hours of training material that way. I think we will have 95%+ accuracy ASR as open source trained networks very soon.
In the case of Amazon Echo/Dot they benefit greatly from the far field array mic for isolating a clean speech signal in noisy/far field environments, would be nice to see generic USB array mics with Linux drivers
- kuschku 11y agoThat’s indeed a good thing. With audiobooks – maybe rented from the local library? – and public TV we could have quality voice recognition tools. Hopefully also ones in German, French, etc. Currently only English is well supported by the non-cloud ones, which is quite annoying.
- beagle3 11y agoWhat's the OSS LSTM+CTC package that's coming along?
- dharma1 11y agohttps://github.com/srvk/eesen https://github.com/srvk/eesen I expect there will be something in Kaldi soon, too