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by daanzu 3y ago
https://github.com/dictation-toolbox/dragonfly https://github.com/daanzu/kaldi-active-grammar
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by daanzu 5y ago
With an open system/engine, you can train your own personal speech model. For kaldi-active-grammar ( https://github.com/daanzu/kaldi-active-grammar ), you can do so without all that much difficulty, although the pro
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by daanzu 5y ago
Yep, I have been using my Kaldi backend through Dragonfly exclusively ever since I got v0.1.0 working. I bootstrapped writing it initially using the Dragonfly WSR (windows speech recognition) backend, because that gave me the best accuracy
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by daanzu 5y ago
"Everything other than talon has terrible latency": False! I develop kaldi-active-grammar ( https://github.com/daanzu/kaldi-active-grammar ), a free and open source speech recognition backend, which has extreme
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by daanzu 5y ago
I have been coding entirely by voice for approximately 10 years now (by hand long before that). Most of that time I have been using the Dragonfly ( https://github.com/dictation-toolbox/dragonfly ) library to construct my
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by daanzu 5y ago
I have been coding entirely by voice for approximately 10 years now (by hand long before that). Most of that time I have been using the Dragonfly ( https://github.com/dictation-toolbox/dragonfly ) library to construct my
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by daanzu 6y ago
A great demonstration of coding by voice. I want to point out that the Dragonfly library has backends other than the closed/commercial Dragon, and there has been significant progress expanding beyond it recently. I have been developing
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by daanzu 6y ago
You raise good points. For what it's worth, I think all "invalidated" samples are still included in the distribution (invalidated.tsv), with the number of up and down votes for each (but not the reasoning).
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by daanzu 6y ago
Google is certainly doing some great work with this, both Project Euphonia and other research [0]. However, as far as I know, the Euphonia dataset is closed and only usable by Google. A Common Voice disordered speech dataset would (presumab
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by daanzu 6y ago
Gathering, collecting, and publishing such a dataset would be great, and would certainly much improve the baseline speech recognition for people with disordered speech, but it can only help so much without personalizing to a specific indivi
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by daanzu 6y ago
I develop kaldi-active-grammar [0]. The Kaldi engine itself is state of the art and open source, but is focused on research rather than usability. My project has a simple interface and comes with a pretty good open source speech model. Howe
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by daanzu 6y ago
Just to be clear, the Dragonfly speech recognition command and control framework has multiple "backends" (speech recognition engines), including my Kaldi one. Probably the most used one currently is the Dragon Naturally Speaking b
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by daanzu 6y ago
For me at least, dictation is actually the more straining mode of speech recognition, as compared to using my command grammars. With dictation, you might say anything, so the computer is given wide leeway in what to recognize, and so you mu
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by daanzu 6y ago
I agree with everything you said, but I would add that a critical component of voice command and control is strict grammars. There is so much structure and context in what we speak, and being able to limit what can be recognized to only wha
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by daanzu 6y ago
Windows Speech Recognition is far from the best, so perhaps your trouble could be partly caused by how you had to speak in order to be understood, rather than the command style? I used to use WSR to code by voice, and it was far more labori
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by daanzu 6y ago
I wrote a simple little Python GUI app to record training audio. Given a text file containing prompts, it will choose a random selection and ordering of them, display them to be dictated by the user, and record the dictation audio and metad
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by daanzu 7y ago
I don't know much about Home Assistant, but that certainly should be possible to set up. The KaldiAG API is pretty low level, but basically: you define a set of rules, and send in audio data, along with a bit mask of which rules are ac
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by daanzu 7y ago
Too late to edit, but I should probably have noted that KaldiAG also would make it easy to define "contexts" when (groups of) commands are active for recognition. For example, if the TV is on, you could have commands for adjusting
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by daanzu 7y ago
I develop Kaldi Active Grammar [1], which is mainly intended for use with strict command grammars. Compared to normal language models, these can provide much better accuracy, assuming you can describe (and speak) your command structure exac
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by daanzu 7y ago
If you are willing to do some training, you can get tremendously improved results, in my experience. For what it's worth, my voice is quite abnormal, so most untrained speech recognition is terrible for me, and even performing the norm
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by daanzu 7y ago
If they are using Windows, packaging is quite easy: see the winpython distribution of KaldiAG. The more difficult part is writing the commands: it is not hard programming, but it is technical. But if they can describe what they would want,
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by daanzu 7y ago
I am all for devising a good, fair apples to apples comparison. If you have any suggestions, let me know. In lieu of that, I use what I have available. While accuracy numbers from papers are informative and interesting, I don't think t
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by daanzu 7y ago
Sorry, I was only using the speech engine accuracy as an example. But the freedom of open source stands for any part of software: Dragon's spectacular failures for me are only in part because of its engine. Also, is the command portion
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by daanzu 7y ago
I said this in another comment, but it can't be emphasized enough: I created Kaldi Active Grammar because I didn't trust relying on closed source software for something so crucial to my productivity, where a decision by an outside
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by daanzu 7y ago
For what it's worth, my voice is quite abnormal, so most untrained speech recognition is terrible for me, and even performing the normal "training" for Dragon still resulted in very poor accuracy. However, apparently their tr
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by daanzu 7y ago
This comment fails to mention Dragonfly with my Kaldi Active Grammar backend [1], which is cross platform (Windows/Linux now and Mac functional and to be released soon), completely free with no private beta features (although I do acce