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How far away are we from a debian package that will work with speechd?

• pabs3 5y ago
  A real Debian package is unlikely, to start with Debian doesn't have a GPU farm for retraining the model from the source data, then probably the training requires proprietary GPU drivers, and probably a subset of the source data is proprietary. https://salsa.debian.org/deeplearning-team/ml-policy https://salsa.debian.org/deeplearning-team/ml-policy Stuffing an existing model into a .deb is of course fairly easy.
  • codetrotter 5y ago
    Speaking of retraining, I think it's also potentially a bit hairy with regards to reproducible builds don't you think? My impression is that machine learning models are often initialized with random values before training begins. And some of them may use additional random data while training as well, I think.
    • DiogenesKynikos 5y ago
      You can fix the seed for the pseudorandom number generator.
    • pabs3 5y ago
      I think a bigger issue is that retraining isn't deterministic (ie bitwise identical) across different hardware, IIRC due to differing float behaviour. I guess folks interested in ML reproducible builds will have to ignore small differences in model float values, but I wonder what affect those differences on model outputs.