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Where does it say DeepSpeech is on hold? I don't see that anywhere.
Maybe we should try to find a list of exactly what they are focussing on going forward instead of the slow drip of things they’re cutting back on (servo, MDN, DeepSpeech...) It’s a sad sad day when you have an organisation getting hundreds of millions in funding and turning away from what’s its good at. The decline has begun in my eyes, it may not become apparent for a few years yet.
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I don’t know what is going to save Mozilla, really I don’t. I just wish there was a way to “reach” them and discuss how we the internet community could come to an agreement about what they could do to derive value we would pay for. It’s not for a lack of trying on their part for sure, but it feels like just using their browser isn’t all there is to it any more
“ Most of the technical changes were already landed, and we see no reason not to ship it. We’ll be releasing 1.0 soon and encourage everyone to update their applications”
So looks like at least 1.0 is near and still gonna happen... I know these seem like dark times for Mozilla but I believe they will survive. As I recall the decline of Netscape was a pretty dark time and out of that came Phoenix - er Firefox and here we are today... I’m sure Mozilla and many of the great projects will survive
Maybe we should try to find a list of exactly what they are focussing on going forward instead of the slow drip of things they’re cutting back on (servo, MDN, DeepSpeech...) It’s a sad sad day when you have an organisation getting hundreds of millions in funding and turning away from what’s its good at. The decline has begun in my eyes, it may not become apparent for a few years yet.
It would be nice if Mozilla could tell us what their focus is going to be, but I doubt that Mozilla management know at this point.
At this point I’m somewhat concerned that Firefox will be irrelevant in fives years, and I don’t currently feel that Mozilla is communicating clearly that they still care about Firefox. I assume they must, but it would be comforting to know that Firefox is still at the core of Mozillas strategy.
I don’t know what is going to save Mozilla, really I don’t. I just wish there was a way to “reach” them and discuss how we the internet community could come to an agreement about what they could do to derive value we would pay for. It’s not for a lack of trying on their part for sure, but it feels like just using their browser isn’t all there is to it any more
Building B2B services around rust ie. onsite training, consulting, development to me seems better than firing people - what am I missing here?
Are they still collecting data for Common Voice, or is it both projects that they're terminating?
https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/mozilla-org-wide-updates-imp...
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Building B2B services around rust ie. onsite training, consulting, development to me seems better than firing people - what am I missing here?
Almost all company-sponsored programming languages are run as loss leaders to enable selling some other profitable product of the company. What is the profitable product that Rust enables?
Surely that's Firefox?
Does anyone know of other open-source projects in the speech-to-text space? DeepSpeech was one of the most promising projects, especially the latest versions...
Other good ones are https://github.com/daanzu/kaldi-active-grammar and https://talonvoice.com/
There are toolkits for research like https://github.com/kaldi-asr/kaldi, https://github.com/espnet/espnet, wav2letter, Espresso, Nvidia/Nemo, https://github.com/didi/athena. You can try them too if you want to go deep. Some of them have interesting capabilities.
Does anyone know of other open-source projects in the speech-to-text space? DeepSpeech was one of the most promising projects, especially the latest versions...
E.g. some very active projects are:
* Kaldi (https://github.com/kaldi-asr/kaldi/) obviously, probably the most famous one, and most mature one. For standard hybrid NN-HMM models and also all their more recent lattice-free MMI (LF-MMI) models / training procedure. This is also heavily used in industry (not just research).
* ESPnet (https://github.com/espnet/espnet), for all kind of end-to-end models, like CTC, attention-based encoder-decoder (including Transformer), and transducer models.
* Espresso (https://github.com/freewym/espresso).
* Google Lingvo (https://github.com/tensorflow/lingvo). This is the open source release of Googles internal ASR system, and used by Google in production (their internal version of it, which is not too much different).
* NVIDIA OpenSeq2Seq (https://github.com/NVIDIA/OpenSeq2Seq).
* Facebook Fairseq (https://github.com/pytorch/fairseq). Attention-based encoder-decoder models mostly.
* Facebook wav2letter (https://github.com/facebookresearch/wav2letter). ASG model/training.
* (RETURNN (https://github.com/rwth-i6/returnn) and RASR (https://github.com/rwth-i6/rasr), our own, although this is currently free for academic use only. It is used in production as well. Supports hybrid NN-HMM, CTC, end-to-end attention-based encoder-decoder, transducer, etc.)
And there are much more.
You will also find lots of ready-to-use trained models.