precise-rs VS DeepSpeech

here's what's on the pipeline next: - finish mel-spectrogram implementation - publish initial version on crates - move python caching rust side - finish implementing in the precise rust port - potentially build another runner for (open wakeword)[https://github.com/dscripka/openWakeWord] - build an android app that supports user-defined wakewords and has some popular defaults to load. ps not a voice assistant, just the thing that activates the voice assistant.

p.s. one of the members of our group had ported the part of the precise engine responsible for decoding to rust, we're working on this lib because the performance of the old mfcc rust lib was bottlenecking the project

I want to share a really cool project with you all: an implementation of the Precise Wakeword engine (the one used in Mycroft) in Rust, called precise-rs. This project is unique because other than the usual advantages of using Rust (like minimal memory usage), there's another nice benefit: running the wakeword engine on Android/iOS we want to be able to say to our phones: "Ok, my dear assistant, do the dishes"💥!!.

This release represents the first phase in the wakeword project, we are working on a Rust wakeword engine based on Precise and a SpeechPy MFCC port in Rust so that user's can run the wakeword easily on their phone and other devices. It is hard to believe that there aren't any current good solutions to running a modern FOSS wakeword engine on a phone in real time. We want to change that and allow everyone access to this technology, with their own wakeword of choice.

As I understand it DeepSpeech is no longer actively maintained by Mozilla: https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech/issues/3693

For Text To Speech, I've found Piper TTS useful (for situations where "quality"=="realistic"/"natual"): https://github.com/rhasspy/piper

For Speech to Text (which AIUI DeepSpeech provided), I've had some success with Vosk: https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api

- [DeepSpeech](https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech) rather than Whisper for offline speech-to-text

I came across a very interesting [project]( (4) Mckay Wrigley on Twitter: "My goal is to (hopefully!) add my house to the dataset over time so that I have an indoor assistant with knowledge of my surroundings. It’s basically just a slow process of building a good enough dataset. I hacked this together for 2 reasons: 1) It was fun, and I wanted to…" / X ) made by Mckay Wrigley and I was wondering what's the easiest way to implement it using free, open-source software. Here's what he used originally, followed by some open source candidates I'm considering but would love feedback and advice before starting: Original Tools: - YoloV8 does the heavy lifting with the object detection - OpenAI Whisper handles voice - GPT-4 handles the “AI” - Google Custom Search Engine handles web browsing - MacOS/iOS handles streaming the video from my iPhone to my Mac - Python for the rest Open Source Alternatives: - [ OpenCV](https://opencv.org/) instead of YoloV8 for computer vision and object detection - Replacing GPT-4 is still a challenge as I know there are some good open-source LLms like Llama 2, but I don't know how to apply this in the code perhaps in the form of api - [DeepSpeech](https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech) rather than Whisper for offline speech-to-text - [Coqui TTS](https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS) instead of Whisper for text-to-speech - Browser automation with [Selenium](https://www.selenium.dev/) instead of Google Custom Search - Stream video from phone via RTSP instead of iOS integration - Python for rest of code I'm new to working with tools like OpenCV, DeepSpeech, etc so would love any advice on the best way to replicate the original project in an open source way before I dive in. Are there any good guides or better resources out there? What are some pitfalls to avoid? Any help is much appreciated!

algo assim? https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech

If you're not afraid to get a little technical, you could take a look at mozilla/DeepSpeech (installation & usage docs here).

There is a lot of TTS and SST development going on (https://github.com/mozilla/TTS; https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech; https://github.com/common-voice/common-voice). That is the only way they work: Contributions from the wild.