Ask HN: I want to get started with Speech-to-Text. Where do I begin?

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I am a novice when it comes to Machine Learning, but I think that having a subject to study, Speech-to-Text, will keep focused.

I recently started looking at CMUSphinx, Kaldi and DeepSpeech.

Do you have any tips for me?

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Coqui (https://github.com/coqui-ai) is a great open-source STT resource you could start with. They have a lot of docs explaining how everything works and has a low barrier to entry.

As part of ETL or just basic understanding about the how the speech data is handled try this tool : https://github.com/wiseman/py-webrtcvad

It is a python wrapper for a library for voice activity detection. It acts as a starting point while working on speech recognition problems. Helped me understand and discover a lot of concepts related to audio signal and data when I was in your shoes.

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