Top 3 Shell speech-to-text Projects

Kaldi Speech Recognition Toolkit

22 13,685 7.4 Shell

kaldi-asr/kaldi is the official location of the Kaldi project.

Project mention: Amazon plans to charge for Alexa in June–unless internal conflict delays revamp | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-20

Yeah, whisper is the closest thing we have, but even it requires more processing power than is present in most of these edge devices in order to feel smooth. I've started a voice interface project on a Raspberry Pi 4, and it takes about 3 seconds to produce a result. That's impressive, but not fast enough for Alexa.
From what I gather a Pi 5 can do it in 1.5 seconds, which is closer, so I suspect it's only a matter of time before we do have fully local STT running directly on speakers.
> Probably anathema to the space, but if the devices leaned into the ~five tasks people use them for (timers, weather, todo list?) could probably tighten up the AI models to be more accurate and/or resource efficient.
Yes, this is the approach taken by a lot of streaming STT systems, like Kaldi [0]. Rather than use a fully capable model, you train a specialized one that knows what kinds of things people are likely to say to it.
[0] http://kaldi-asr.org/
Phonetisaurus

1 430 0.0 Shell

Phonetisaurus G2P

Project mention: Is there a software/site that would transcribe English texts into IPA (relatively long texts)? | /r/LanguageTechnology | 2023-04-20

Some of the more popular tools for this include Sequitur and Phonetisaurus. It would also probably not be too hard to train something in PyTorch/Keras.
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NoteWhispers

2 22 4.1 Shell

Voice memos recorded from the microphone, transcribed offline to text and converted to Joplin notes

Project mention: Joplin – open-source note-taking and to-do application with sync | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-07-05

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