DevFest Ranchi 2019 – Rabimba Karanjai - DeepSpeech: A Journey to less than 10% Word Error Rate
GDG DevFest Ranchi 2019
Oct 4, 2019
📍 Ranchi, India
Abstract
Talk at DevFest Ranchi 2019 on DeepSpeech and the journey to less than 10% word error rate.
Key points:
- Mozilla DeepSpeech open-source ASR engine
- Training and fine-tuning speech models
- Achieving production-quality accuracy
- Deployment at Fireflies.ai for 10M+ users
Takeaway: Open-source speech recognition can match commercial accuracy while keeping data private and on-premise.

Authors
Staff Agentic AI Researcher