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With an open system/engine, you can train your own personal speech model. For kaldi-active-grammar ( https://github.com/daanzu/kaldi-active-grammar ), you can do so without all tha…

Yep, I have been using my Kaldi backend through Dragonfly exclusively ever since I got v0.1.0 working. I bootstrapped writing it initially using the Dragonfly WSR (windows speech r…

"Everything other than talon has terrible latency": False! I develop kaldi-active-grammar ( https://github.com/daanzu/kaldi-active-grammar ), a free and open source speech recognit…

I have been coding entirely by voice for approximately 10 years now (by hand long before that). Most of that time I have been using the Dragonfly ( https://github.com/dictation-too…

I have been coding entirely by voice for approximately 10 years now (by hand long before that). Most of that time I have been using the Dragonfly ( https://github.com/dictation-too…

A great demonstration of coding by voice. I want to point out that the Dragonfly library has backends other than the closed/commercial Dragon, and there has been significant progre…

You raise good points. For what it's worth, I think all "invalidated" samples are still included in the distribution (invalidated.tsv), with the number of up and down votes for eac…

Google is certainly doing some great work with this, both Project Euphonia and other research [0]. However, as far as I know, the Euphonia dataset is closed and only usable by Goog…

Gathering, collecting, and publishing such a dataset would be great, and would certainly much improve the baseline speech recognition for people with disordered speech, but it can …

I develop kaldi-active-grammar [0]. The Kaldi engine itself is state of the art and open source, but is focused on research rather than usability. My project has a simple interface…

Just to be clear, the Dragonfly speech recognition command and control framework has multiple "backends" (speech recognition engines), including my Kaldi one. Probably the most use…

For me at least, dictation is actually the more straining mode of speech recognition, as compared to using my command grammars. With dictation, you might say anything, so the compu…

I agree with everything you said, but I would add that a critical component of voice command and control is strict grammars. There is so much structure and context in what we speak…

Windows Speech Recognition is far from the best, so perhaps your trouble could be partly caused by how you had to speak in order to be understood, rather than the command style? I …

I wrote a simple little Python GUI app to record training audio. Given a text file containing prompts, it will choose a random selection and ordering of them, display them to be di…

I don't know much about Home Assistant, but that certainly should be possible to set up. The KaldiAG API is pretty low level, but basically: you define a set of rules, and send in …

Too late to edit, but I should probably have noted that KaldiAG also would make it easy to define "contexts" when (groups of) commands are active for recognition. For example, if t…

I develop Kaldi Active Grammar [1], which is mainly intended for use with strict command grammars. Compared to normal language models, these can provide much better accuracy, assum…

If you are willing to do some training, you can get tremendously improved results, in my experience. For what it's worth, my voice is quite abnormal, so most untrained speech recog…

If they are using Windows, packaging is quite easy: see the winpython distribution of KaldiAG. The more difficult part is writing the commands: it is not hard programming, but it i…

I am all for devising a good, fair apples to apples comparison. If you have any suggestions, let me know. In lieu of that, I use what I have available. While accuracy numbers from …

Sorry, I was only using the speech engine accuracy as an example. But the freedom of open source stands for any part of software: Dragon's spectacular failures for me are only in p…

I said this in another comment, but it can't be emphasized enough: I created Kaldi Active Grammar because I didn't trust relying on closed source software for something so crucial …

For what it's worth, my voice is quite abnormal, so most untrained speech recognition is terrible for me, and even performing the normal "training" for Dragon still resulted in ver…