julius

There are a bunch of good libraries that work offline out there for speech recognition -- CMUSphinx[0] has been around a long time and work seems to have shifted a little bit to Kaldi[1] and Vosk[2] (?). Julius is still going strong as well[3]. CMUSphinx and Julius have been around for ~10+ years at this point. [EDIT] - there's even a useful Quora post[4] [0]: https://cmusphinx.github.io/ [1]: https://www.kaldi-asr.org/doc/about.html [2]: https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-server [3]: https://github.com/julius-speech/julius [4]: https://www.quora.com/Are-there-any-open-source-APIs-for-spe...

I never understood the need for server-side speech recognition. Did an internship in 2013 for speech recognition on a BeagleBoard with Julius (https://github.com/julius-speech/julius), the thing worked with ninety-ish % accuracy (japanese language) and delay comparable to what my tablet gives - but locally.

Could you expand on why CMUSphinx[0]/Julius[1] not used? I'm all for using rust for the speed and safety it allows, and then FFI-ing to CMUSphinx (this is exactly what I want to do, given more free time in the future), could you explain why the available open source libraries (CMUsphinx is just one, there's also Julius) couldn't be used? [0] - http://cmusphinx.github.io/ [1] - https://github.com/julius-speech/julius

Thank you for the links. It seems like PiAUISuite uses Google's speech to text (look for the curl call [1]), while Jasper allows choosing between different engines [2]. It has install instructions for PocketSphinx [3] and Julius [4]. Those two seem close to what I have been looking for, although Julius apparently lacks a good model for English at the moment. [1] https://github.com/StevenHickson/PiAUISuite/blob/master/Voic... [2] http://jasperproject.github.io/documentation/installation/#i... [3] https://cmusphinx.github.io/ [4] https://github.com/julius-speech/julius Edit: I dug a bit deeper and found this comparison [5] which suggests that Kaldi [6] is the best toolkit to use. [5] http://suendermann.com/su/pdf/oasis2014.pdf [6] http://kaldi-asr.org/