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> The audio can be parsed locally Speech recognition doesn't work like that, there's no yacc/lex for you to just "run locally". Device-local recognition is lim

> The audio can be parsed locally Speech recognition doesn't work like that, there's no yacc/lex for you to just "run locally". Device-local recognition is limited, and not very agile. It often takes years for it to recognize new words, and it usually has extreme bias toward a handful of urban centres. I don't like sending my data away, and I choose not to, but it is simply not realistic to expect Google-quality or Amazon-quality continuous real time speech recognition and nlp to happen entirely on-device.

stordoff 8y ago
> Speech recognition doesn't work like that, there's no yacc/lex for you to just "run locally" Why not? It _could_: > In our recent paper, "Streaming End-to-End Speech Recognition for Mobile Devices", we present a model trained using RNN transducer (RNN-T) technology that is compact enough to reside on a phone. This means no more network latency or spottiness — the new recognizer is always available, even when you are offline. [...] > The RNN-T we trained offers the same accuracy as the traditional server-based models https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/03/an-all-neural-on-device-speech.html https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/03/an-all-neural-on-device-sp...
- macawfish 8y ago
  This is really cool!
- TeMPOraL 8y ago
  > Why not? It _could_: It did. Anyone remembers the good ol' Microsoft Speech API of ~Windows 2000/XP era?
michaelmrose 8y ago
You can already run an offline google translate that will not only recognize your words but translate it to a foreign language.
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huffmsa 8y ago
Of course you can run it locally. The model / dictionary vector files you need are measured in the 10s of MB. Unless you're Apple and still consider a 128GB SSD an acceptable base storage size, you can and should have room for multiple dictionaries and models.
gbear605 8y ago
On my Mac, I can download the Apple speech recognition software and it accurately recognizes all of my speech. I’m not from an urban area and it does a great job recognizing new words. It takes under 10 gigabytes of storage, if I remember correctly. So I don’t know what you’re on about.

stordoff 8y ago

> Speech recognition doesn't work like that, there's no yacc/lex for you to just "run locally" Why not? It _could_: > In our recent paper, "Streaming End-to-End Speech Recognition for Mobile Devices", we present a model trained using RNN transducer (RNN-T) technology that is compact enough to reside on a phone. This means no more network latency or spottiness — the new recognizer is always available, even when you are offline. [...] > The RNN-T we trained offers the same accuracy as the traditional server-based models https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/03/an-all-neural-on-device-speech.html https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/03/an-all-neural-on-device-sp...

macawfish 8y ago
This is really cool!
TeMPOraL 8y ago
> Why not? It _could_: It did. Anyone remembers the good ol' Microsoft Speech API of ~Windows 2000/XP era?

michaelmrose 8y ago

You can already run an offline google translate that will not only recognize your words but translate it to a foreign language.

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huffmsa 8y ago

Of course you can run it locally. The model / dictionary vector files you need are measured in the 10s of MB. Unless you're Apple and still consider a 128GB SSD an acceptable base storage size, you can and should have room for multiple dictionaries and models.

gbear605 8y ago

On my Mac, I can download the Apple speech recognition software and it accurately recognizes all of my speech. I’m not from an urban area and it does a great job recognizing new words. It takes under 10 gigabytes of storage, if I remember correctly. So I don’t know what you’re on about.