Kaldi is an open, pluggable framework and is a ton more flexible and powerful than this. It's used by hundreds of teams, including a number of consumer tech com

Kaldi is an open, pluggable framework and is a ton more flexible and powerful than this. It's used by hundreds of teams, including a number of consumer tech companies you've heard of. They're not going to move to this over it. Especially because ASR is a living organism. You have to constantly update your language model as new people, ideas, and words move into the normal lexicon. As people start talking about "COVID", "metaverse", "king charles", or whatever new things that happen, these need to be added to your language model. You need these updates monthly at a minimum and OpenAI didn't release the raw data which means you can't retrain it even if you wanted to spend the time/resources to. So, this is an interesting research project and helpful for small teams and side projects, but it's unlikely it makes any real impact on the industry.