One interesting point: "1,000 hours is also a good start, but given the generalization gap (discussed below) you need around 10,000 hours of data in different d

One interesting point: "1,000 hours is also a good start, but given the generalization gap (discussed below) you need around 10,000 hours of data in different domains." Many of the companies working in this space who aren't Google/Amazon target less general domains, using domain-specific languages models to skirt around the lack of annotated acoustic data. But the lack of annotated acoustic data is a real problem, so any effort to provide data to everyone (particularly for a non-English language) is extremely admirable. I applaud the OpenSTT team for their work.