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DeepSpeech Is Discontinued (2020)
- dabinat 1y agoIt was discontinued 5 years ago - I’m not sure why it took so long to archive the repo. https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/future-of-deepspeech-stt-after-recent-changes-at-mozilla/66191 https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/future-of-deepspeech-stt-aft...
- HelloUsername 1y agoPerhaps OP URL can be changed to https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mozilla-DeepSpeech-Discontinued https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mozilla-DeepSpeech-Discontinue...
- LorenDB 1y agoI'd change it, except this submission is past the edit window. Perhaps dang or tomhow will see this and change it for me :)
- altairprime 1y agoYou should email them about that!
- HelloUsername 1y agoThen comments should be moved hither: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44380572 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44380572
- altairprime 1y agoIf you email that to the mods, they’ll do so :)
- phoronixrly 1y ago[flagged]
- HelloUsername 1y agoWhat is wrong with this specific article? And what is wrong with Phoronix in general? Could you give us examples? Is your username satire?
- phoronixrly 1y agoNo, made this account to specifically link source articles each time a phoronix link gets posted, so that people don't have to be exposed to the low effort and thus low quality benchmarks, general blogspam, clickbait, and toxic comments that phoronix generates. Turns out people appreciate it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44353663 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44353663
- xeonmc 1y agoImagine an alternate timeline where Mozilla had named this project “FreeSpeech” instead as a free and open TTS solution.
- totetsu 1y agoWe regret to announce that the freespeech project is now being transitioned to archive mode. Thanks to everyone who contributed, submitted issues, suggested improvements, or simply forked in anger. I don’t really use it anymore, so I can’t really maintain it. You might consider migrating to one of these thriving alternatives: • statevoice • echo-chamber.js
- echelon 1y agoMy personal little conspiracy theory is that Google pays Mozilla as an antitrust shield. A lot of us pretty much assume that much, but I think it goes much deeper. I think Google pays and maintains a working relationship with the CEO of Mozilla (current and former) to purposely keep the organization rudderless, uncompetitive, and shrinking. Mozilla spends its money building a 3D VR metaverse here, a bunch of AI models it later scraps over there, a web3 / distributed social program, etc. It scraps Rust, doesn't invest into Firefox. Just silly toys and experiments. That nice CEO salary is hush money. Just a fun little pet theory, totally not based on evidence.
- Teever 1y agoI don't know if there's a direct quid pro quo relationship between the CEO of Mozilla and Google but I feel quite confident that Google absolutely influences the organization in ways beyond just the cash injection to make it rudderless, uncompetitive and shrinking as you say. It could be as simple as ex-Google employees at lower levels than CEO who are paid by Google take positions at Mozilla, or more subtle things like guiding the direction of the organization through standards boards. It would be really fascinating to look at the org charts of Mozilla past and present and try and build the network between people who worked at Google or Google related organizations before, during, and after their time at Mozilla. Because you're absolutely right that the organization is so absolutely dysfunctional that it can't just be incompetence, it has to be absolute malice.
- Devorlon 1y agoYes simple things such as becoming employed at Mozilla to perform corporate espionage for Google.
- ipsum2 1y agoI've been using Nvidia's parakeet model, it's been better than Whisper v3 large and smaller. Only supports English. https://huggingface.co/nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2 https://huggingface.co/nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2
- nico 1y agoDoes it need a newer GPU? Or can it run on just CPU? Would it run on a raspberry pi?
- GaggiX 1y agoLook up for faster whisper or distilled whisper models, smaller models run quite nicely but perform poorly outside of English, if you are interested in a different language it's better to finetune it (HuggingFace has a huge amount of finetuned Whisper models).
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- ipsum2 1y agoIf you want real-time, it requires a GPU, but can be underpowered. CPU is a little slower but works fine.
- lupusreal 1y agoBest CPU TTS that can run on something like a raspberry pi is Piper. It can do real time synthesis on a raspberry pi and on a real computer it runs several times faster with negligible performance cost. I use it for 'reading' ebooks when my eyes get tired. The quality is roughly on par with where Mac OS's TTS was ~10 years ago (the last time I used it.) You can tell it's TTS, but it's good enough that you can become accustomed to it fairly easily. https://github.com/rhasspy/piper https://github.com/rhasspy/piper
- GaggiX 1y agoThey are talking about STT, not TTS, but as a TTS piper is very good and works nicely on a raspberry pi, I agree.
- msgodel 1y agoI still prefer festival, it's fast, it's in all the package repos, and I don't like automations having realistic voices.
- i80and 1y agoThey're opposites: DeepSpeech is speech to text, where Festival is TTS
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- quentindanjou 1y agoIt seems that the team that used to work on DeepSpeech then worked on coqui-ai STT https://github.com/coqui-ai/STT https://github.com/coqui-ai/STT and now recommends using OpenAI Whisper (https://github.com/openai/whisper https://github.com/openai/whisper)