Breandan Considine
Developer Advocate
I am a software engineer and developer advocate interested in machine learning & speech recognition.
Silicon Valley Code Camp : October 11th and 12th 2014Session
Offline Speech Recognition for Mobile Developers
We will review the state of offline speech recognition and discuss how to write your own SR app. No prior experience required.
About This Session
Automatic speech recognition has recently received enormous attention with the advent of cloud-based services such as Cortana, Siri, Majel and other virtual avatars. A recording comes from the device, is processed on a remote server, which sends some text back to the user. Round-trip latency: <200ms. Can we ever achieve better results with a microprocessor running FOSS or is speech truly a black box problem? State of the art ASR libraries are certainly slower and less accurate, suggesting all of the innovation will happen inside a datacenter or microchip, behind NDAs and closed doors. We will review the state of offline ASR technology and attempt to deconstruct that notion. No prior speech recognition experience is required.
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