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Didn't mozilla also have a related speech to text software that got canned/moved to a different company? Or was that different?
by user_7832 3y ago
Didn't mozilla also have a related speech to text software that got canned/moved to a different company? Or was that different?
- salynchnew 3y agoDeepSpeech? https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech
- posguy 3y agoMozilla didn't want to fund further development, most of the team ended up at Coqui.ai
- user_7832 3y agoThanks, that's the one I was thinking about. I remembered it had an odd name.
- rasz 3y agoMozilla shut that project down same day (Apr 12, 2021) as: "Mozilla is partnering with NVIDIA, which is investing $1.5 million in Mozilla Common Voice,". Aka they got paid off by Nvidia to not compete.
- yorwba 3y agoDeepSpeech is not competition for NVIDIA, quite the contrary. More people using DeepSpeech means more GPUs sold. Seems more likely that Mozilla would have shut down both projects, but NVIDIA funding saved the more important one.
- contrarian1234 3y agoDoes speech to text require that much compute? EDIT: Nvm, there seems to be a new project called Sayboard that does everything on your phone: https://github.com/ElishaAz/Sayboard https://github.com/ElishaAz/Sayboard (though switching from Swiftkey is a bit annoying)
- bitvoid 3y agoThis is an open dataset of voice samples to train models, so not really STT/TTS software.