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> Speech recognition doesn't work like that, there's no yacc/lex for you to just "run locally"

Why not? It _could_:

> In our recent paper, "Streaming End-to-End Speech Recognition for Mobile Devices", we present a model trained using RNN transducer (RNN-T) technology that is compact enough to reside on a phone. This means no more network latency or spottiness — the new recognizer is always available, even when you are offline. [...]

> The RNN-T we trained offers the same accuracy as the traditional server-based models

https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/03/an-all-neural-on-device-sp...



> Why not? It _could_:

It did. Anyone remembers the good ol' Microsoft Speech API of ~Windows 2000/XP era?


This is really cool!




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