warp-ctc

Eesen looks promising, uses LSTM and CTC rather than older tech. https://github.com/yajiemiao/eesen Baidu open sourced their CTC implementation https://github.com/baidu-research/warp-ctc I think we will have an easy to install OSS speech recognition library and accurate pretrained networks not far off from Google/Alexa/Baidu, running locally rather than in the cloud, within 1-2 years. Can't wait.

I agree with the general motivation that having too much AI research in the hands of software companies who keep it proprietary harms transparency and progress. But there is already a lot of neural-network free software, so why another package? Not only is there a lot out there, a lot of it was released by companies like IBM[1], Google[2], Yahoo[3], Baidu[4], Microsoft[5], etc. So while I'm generally sympathetic to the FSF's position, this case almost seems like a bit of a reversal of things: there doesn't seem to be a problem with for-profit companies taking the fruits of the labors of volunteers and building on top of it... instead, we have a surplus of riches, released as Open Source by a bunch of big companies. It just happens that most of it is under a permissive license like the ALv2. Of course, one could suggest that that state o

I'm hoping some open source libraries will come out of this - it's state of the art https://github.com/baidu-research/warp-ctc

Yeah, I'm pretty sure we'll have state-of-the-art open source deep learning based speech recognition libraries this year that will run on local hardware without significant latency. Baidu open sourced their warp CTC a few weeks ago, give it another few months before someone will release a trained English network for it https://github.com/baidu-research/warp-ctc

I was thinking the same thing, it almost looks a little too good to be true -- although it does kinda make sense given the focus on GPU-based clusters. I wonder how this compares to Baidu's warp-ctc [1]. They don't really seem to be the same thing, and maybe I'm missing something since I'm just starting to get into ML, but it seems to be conspicuously absent from this writeup. [1] https://github.com/baidu-research/warp-ctc

A tutorial: https://github.com/baidu-research/warp-ctc/blob/master/torch...

Github [from article]: https://github.com/baidu-research/warp-ctc