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It's really cool how people are taking these tiny cheap MCUs and making them do fun things for hobbyists. There's nothing better than a project with zero real-world use-case but that's done just because it was a challenge. Eg: Making the CH32V003 programmable via USB: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-QazXghkLY CH32V003 "Super-Cluster": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lh93FayWHqw Powering a Nixie Tube from USB with a…
this is exciting! it's still at prototype stage: 'getting about 90% accuracy [distinguishing between the spoken digits 'zero' to 'nine',] with the code as it stands.' i wonder if modern continuous optimization algorithms could yield a neural network that would do better than this mfcc approach at, perhaps, even lower computational cost they seem to have gotten more expensive lately, though (11.83¢ in quantity 500), a…
Replacing the codebook approach with a statistical/DNN is more likely to give higher accuracy than getting rid of mfccs as spectral representation (at least in general ASR). (Arguably, using Mel spectra was the least controversial design choice made for Whisper.)
About 10 years ago, I used a basic flip phone, vendor locked to a $15/month Verizon plan. The Wal Mart page for a similar device is still up at https://www.walmart.com/ip/Verizon-Wireless-Samsung-Gusto-3-... Among other things, it had limited speech recognition -- you could say "Call" followed by a name, and it would match that against the address book on device. We live in strange times.
i didn't use the feature very much because to activate it, iirc, you had to either flip the phone open or press a button on a hands-free headset. but obviously this wasn't a bluetooth headset, and the phone couldn't play music, so you wouldn't walk around with it in your ears all the time; unless you'd just gotten off a different call, you'd have to get it out, put it in your ears, plug it in, and then you could use the speech recognition feature
so unless you were a secretary or something, making one phone call after another for hours (to a small number of people), you might as well just use speed dial
About 10 years ago, I used a basic flip phone, vendor locked to a $15/month Verizon plan. The Wal Mart page for a similar device is still up at https://www.walmart.com/ip/Verizon-Wireless-Samsung-Gusto-3-... Among other things, it had limited speech recognition -- you could say "Call" followed by a name, and it would match that against the address book on device. We live in strange times.
Yeah, even 24 year-old Nokia 3310 had some form of voice dialling [1]. OS/2 Warp 4.0 (1996) came with speech recognition and dictation software [2]. The CPUs it supported back then weren't much better than a 10-year old phone. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_3310 [2] https://www.os2world.com/wiki/index.php?title=OS/2_Warp_4:_%...
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Replacing the codebook approach with a statistical/DNN is more likely to give higher accuracy than getting rid of mfccs as spectral representation (at least in general ASR). (Arguably, using Mel spectra was the least controversial design choice made for Whisper.)
thank you! those are good points. i was thinking that maybe you could get by with some relatively sparse convolutional layers over the raw sound samples and save yourself the expense of doing a real fourier transform, but maybe that's a dumb idea
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Speech to text, not text to speech. There's nothing to hear but your own voice.
Well, considering everything outside/before whisper would be less than a 40% accurate on my voice (don’t know the reason and now whisper is close to 100% even with tech stuff/abbreviations). Things like Siri, Google, Alexa, Dragon etc all never understand (I stopped trying, so it might have improved, but I did try not long ago) anything I say. When I ask for the weather, something like Siri looks on Google what the b…
It's really cool how people are taking these tiny cheap MCUs and making them do fun things for hobbyists. There's nothing better than a project with zero real-world use-case but that's done just because it was a challenge. Eg: Making the CH32V003 programmable via USB: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-QazXghkLY CH32V003 "Super-Cluster": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lh93FayWHqw Powering a Nixie Tube from USB with a…