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Initial Release of Mozilla’s Open Source Speech Recognition Model and Voice Data

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Re: Initial Release of Mozilla’s Open Source Speech Recognition Model and Voice Data

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

wslh wrote: post #8
bobajeff wrote: post #7

Awesome, we're so close to having a speech-to-text system I can trust. I really wish Mozilla would release a keyboard app for Android. It would instantly be the single most trusted keyboard available.

Regarding Android keyboards, it is horrific that Google keyboard sends all your key presses, except passwords, to them.

... it does what? Even if you disable the "Share Snippets" option?

Re: Initial Release of Mozilla’s Open Source Speech Recognition Model and Voice Data

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Post by jasonkostempski »

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #11
wslh wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Regarding Android keyboards, it is horrific that Google keyboard sends all your key presses, except passwords, to them.

... it does what? Even if you disable the "Share Snippets" option?

I hope not but I only noticed the opt-out feature just a few weeks ago. It's sickening that Google thinks it's acceptable. Opt-in or opt-out, it never should have been considered a viable "feature" to include.

Re: Initial Release of Mozilla’s Open Source Speech Recognition Model and Voice Data

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Post by wslh »

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #11
wslh wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Regarding Android keyboards, it is horrific that Google keyboard sends all your key presses, except passwords, to them.

... it does what? Even if you disable the "Share Snippets" option?

There is no official statement of Google about this but there is a generic Android warning saying "This method can collect all of the text that you enter except passwords including personal data and credit card numbers.". I wonder why Google doesn't explicitly say what they are doing. I don't want to distribute FUD but this is a critical component.

Re: Initial Release of Mozilla’s Open Source Speech Recognition Model and Voice Data

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Post by ocdtrekkie »

Really happy to see someone major looking at open source speech recognition. Due to the lack of a self-hosted or on-device solution, my assistant/automation software is basically designed for speech, but not currently doing recognition because I haven't found a non-cloud option that does what I need it to.

Re: Initial Release of Mozilla’s Open Source Speech Recognition Model and Voice Data

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Post by TD-Linux »

tmzt wrote: post #2

How does this compare with Snips.co which can do offline speech recognition on a Rapberry Pi 3? Coyld this be used to train a model/engine that can be used that way?

They are listed as a contributor to the Common Voice dataset: https://medium.com/mozilla-open-innovation/sharing-our-commo...

I think their product is higher level - it has things like recognizing commands and sentence structures, and hotword detection.

Re: Initial Release of Mozilla’s Open Source Speech Recognition Model and Voice Data

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Post by api »

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #11
wslh wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Regarding Android keyboards, it is horrific that Google keyboard sends all your key presses, except passwords, to them.

... it does what? Even if you disable the "Share Snippets" option?

Everything by Google sends everything to Google.

Re: Initial Release of Mozilla’s Open Source Speech Recognition Model and Voice Data

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Post by TD-Linux »

kljuka wrote: post #17

How does Mozilla's 6.5% error rate on LibriSpeech’s test-clean dataset compare to Google's, Apple's, Amazon's and other's voice recognition? I couldn't easily find any chart of comparisons.

In the Baidu Deep Speech 2 paper, the Baidu implementation is able to get 5.33%, and a human 5.83%. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1512.02595v1.pdf
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