DevFest Ranchi 2019 – Rabimba Karanjai - DeepSpeech: A Journey to less than 10% Word Error Rate

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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.