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Re: Show HN: LibreASR – An On-Premises, Streaming Speech Recognition System

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

Proven wrote: post #15
ahoka wrote: post #10

In case someone wondered what does the title have to do with logic, it’s just probably a (common) malapropism. premise (noun) a previous statement or proposition from which another is inferred or follows as a conclusion. premises (noun) a house or building, together with its land and outbuildings, occupied by a business or considered in an official context.

It's not "mal" anything, many simply prefer to use "on-premise" or on-prem for "on-premises". You didn't have any issue understanding the original title.

> You didn't have any issue understanding the original title.

Humans are very good at live error correction, but that doesn't make it not wrong.

Re: Show HN: LibreASR – An On-Premises, Streaming Speech Recognition System

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Post by woodson »

This is somewhat off-topic, but as someone who has worked on various speech processing and ASR projects, I'm curious to learn from people who have specific problems and applications for this technology where it can make a difference.

That is to say, what are areas where you think ASR can enable new products or make common and tedious tasks much more efficient?

Re: Show HN: LibreASR – An On-Premises, Streaming Speech Recognition System

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Post by kkielhofner »

I LOVE that you provided a sample application targeting the ESP32-LyraT! While the ESP8266/ESP32 get plenty of love on HN (and elsewhere) I think the ESP ADF (audio development framework) and various boards dev boards (Lyra, Korvo, etc) are really under appreciated and essentially unknown.

I enjoy a Raspberry Pi, Jetson nano, Arduino, whatever as much as the next person but the seemingly endless stream of projects and resulting blog posts, etc featuring them can get a little old.

Great work!

Re: Show HN: LibreASR – An On-Premises, Streaming Speech Recognition System

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Post by crawfordcomeaux »

woodson wrote: post #52

This is somewhat off-topic, but as someone who has worked on various speech processing and ASR projects, I'm curious to learn from people who have specific problems and applications for this technology where it can make a difference. That is to say, what are areas where you think ASR can enable new products or make common and tedious tasks much more efficient?

My partner and I are raising our child in unique ways with a focus on avoiding certain linguistic patterns. I'm interested in filming/recording our home, automating transcription, and creating a system for voice-driven video editing we can do on the fly to create highlights and capture discussions. I see this as a way to create a dataset they can use in the future to diagnose any trauma caused by our choices.

Re: Show HN: LibreASR – An On-Premises, Streaming Speech Recognition System

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Post by th3h4mm3r »

whimsicalism wrote: post #39
th3h4mm3r wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For the compute problem: maybe you can use cloud server gpu powered as https://www.paperspace.com/ I don't know update prices but I remember it was quite affordable.

> I remember it was quite affordable. Relative to what? Paperspace is one of the costlier GPU providers.

Okay, you are right, but it's also really performant, so imho you can do a lot of work in minor time.

For something cheapest I read that post on reddit :

https://amp.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/dqh09n/cheapest_clo...

Re: Show HN: LibreASR – An On-Premises, Streaming Speech Recognition System

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Post by 72deluxe »

crawfordcomeaux wrote: post #54
woodson wrote: post #52

This is somewhat off-topic, but as someone who has worked on various speech processing and ASR projects, I'm curious to learn from people who have specific problems and applications for this technology where it can make a difference. That is to say, what are areas where you think ASR can enable new products or make common and tedious tasks much more efficient?

My partner and I are raising our child in unique ways with a focus on avoiding certain linguistic patterns. I'm interested in filming/recording our home, automating transcription, and creating a system for voice-driven video editing we can do on the fly to create highlights and capture discussions. I see this as a way to create a dataset they can use in the future to diagnose any trauma caused by our choices.

You're effectively experimenting on your child? Don't you think the repurcussions might be severe?

Re: Show HN: LibreASR – An On-Premises, Streaming Speech Recognition System

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Post by whimsicalism »

th3h4mm3r wrote: post #55
whimsicalism wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I remember it was quite affordable. Relative to what? Paperspace is one of the costlier GPU providers.

Okay, you are right, but it's also really performant, so imho you can do a lot of work in minor time. For something cheapest I read that post on reddit : https://amp.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/dqh09n/cheapest_clo...

performant? It's the same GPU..?

Re: Show HN: LibreASR – An On-Premises, Streaming Speech Recognition System

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Post by crawfordcomeaux »

72deluxe wrote: post #56
crawfordcomeaux wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My partner and I are raising our child in unique ways with a focus on avoiding certain linguistic patterns. I'm interested in filming/recording our home, automating transcription, and creating a system for voice-driven video editing we can do on the fly to create highlights and capture discussions. I see this as a way to create a dataset they can use in the future to diagnose any trauma caused by our choices.

You're effectively experimenting on your child? Don't you think the repurcussions might be severe?

Every parent is, though many will deny it. The repercussions of doing so without intention and without admitting it are already severe. Every parent is likely to traumatize their child in some way, including the trauma of protecting them from trauma to the point that they don't learn to heal through it. I'm ok with intentionally experimenting and normalizing healing within our family.

Also, it's already paying off tremendously. When repercussions can be severe, so can rewards. We have a 2-year old who is incredibly emotionally aware, has a huge vocabulary, enjoys eating anything, explores freely, is learning to play multiple instruments, draws with a pencil grip in both hands, can sit to actively listen to music for 20+ minutes at a time, and learns lyrics incredibly fast.

If you have specific fears, I'm interested in hearing them because that gives us an opportunity to prepare.

Re: Show HN: LibreASR – An On-Premises, Streaming Speech Recognition System

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Post by posguy »

nsomaru wrote: post #26
guillem_lefait wrote: post #21

Nice project and bold to demo with a French native speaking English. On a side project, I'm looking at the best interface to facilitate further edition (correction) of the recognized text. Target is local councils and regional parliament, where sessions are usually recorded but without transcripts. If xx% accuracy is enough to identify keywords, manual edition is still required to not distort precise meaning. Nothing…

I’m really interested in this project too. Been thinking about similar solutions for a while now. I looked into Kaldi and Mozilla Deep Speech but the former seems geared at ASR experts and the latter didn’t seem suited for my particular application (longer recorded audio or real time stream)

Mozilla DeepSpeech has streaming audio support as of a few releases ago, the word error rate has also improved.

I would recommend looking at Vosk too, it converts speech to text much faster than Mozilla DeepSpeech while having slightly better results: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/

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