I don't see why Mozilla would do this kind of things except to spread ressources. I know that it is an anecdote, but I don't know anyone who uses any kind of speech to text in part because they all suck if you don't speak english and even then..
Initial Release of Mozilla’s Open Source Speech Recognition Model and Voice Data
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#32Does this foreshadow a day when Firefox starts spying on what I'm talking about?
If they wanted to do that, there are easier ways to do it than to release a speech recognition system and the speech data that makes it work.
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#33For those who don't know that open source speech recognition that does not depend on AI already exists: http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/ http://julius.osdn.jp/en_index.php Maybe with this data set released eventually all that additional data will be used to improve those tools as well
Don't forget Kaldi!
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#34This is super cool, but I'd be cautious about the usefulness of this data set. Both this data set and LibriSpeech are read speech, where the speaker was prompted with a transcription and asked to say it out loud. In practice it's very rare that you're trying to transcribe speech that's already been transcribed. Speech patterns for computer-directed speech (e.g. for voice activated user interfaces) or human-to-human s…
Yup, this is an excellent point. We have, and will continue to explore ways to allow Common Voice users to speak more organically (for instance by answering a question, or responding free-form to some other sort of prompt). The problem with this approach is that it requires an extra step, transcription, which at the scale we are trying to achieve is pretty costly in either money or time (ie. tedium for our users). Ev…
Have you considered getting volunteers to transcribe permissively licensed video or podcasts?
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#36This is tangential, but I wonder if something like this could be (mis)used to break captcha - by feeding in the disabled-friendly audio captcha and passing the results back to the captcha server.
As voice recognition becomes more sophisticated I think captchas are going to have to evolve to kjeep up as well.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
They have an iOS app too: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/project-common-voice-by-mozi... It’s a great idea to crowd source this. Wonder if this project can turn voice recognition into a solved problem. I just set a daily reminder so I can do 10 minutes a day.
Thank you so much! I also want to emphasize the importance of listening (validating) as well as recording. Validation is an big part of the puzzle for building machine learning viable data.
Can I suggest is encourging user's to get recordings from their children as well, as most speech recognition libraries are pretty poor with children's voices. (IMO Alexa Voice Service is by far the best with children voices.)
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#38This is very timely, as today I was thinking of caving in and getting an Echo Dot so I can control my smart home devices by voice.
I would love an open-hardware microphone array that I could use with a Pi or something similar, to write my own Alexa. Not only would I love this, I would store all my commands and send them to Mozilla to help with their speech recognition models.
I don't want to be the guy who wishes someone else would do all the work and then give it away for free, so I'll do what I can to help (which is probably limited to writing a bunch of code and documentation on how people can set this up more easily). Congratulations and thanks to Mozilla for this.
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The model we released today is not yet optimized for smaller devices like that, but our plan is to make it usable on targets like the RPi3.
Are you releasing any prebuilt models, I searched but couldn't find any, so people can go and play with your work without training? Edit: NM found it under releases: https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech/releases .
Thank you for finding and linking the prebuilt model. It was eluding me.
Re: Initial Release of Mozilla’s Open Source Speech Recognition Model and Voice Data
#40This is very timely, as today I was thinking of caving in and getting an Echo Dot so I can control my smart home devices by voice. I would love an open-hardware microphone array that I could use with a Pi or something similar, to write my own Alexa. Not only would I love this, I would store all my commands and send them to Mozilla to help with their speech recognition models. I don't want to be the guy who wishes som…
Not affiliated in any way but have you seen the MATRIX Creator or MATRIX Voice? Both contain microphone arrays that can interface with a Raspberry Pi.
I’d love to see one of these meshed together with this new Mozilla voice project for an open source Echo or Google Home. The only missing piece it seems at this point is NLP and all of the glue that converts commands to API calls.