On: Espresso: A Fast End-to-End Neural Speech Recognition Toolkit

[echelon]

> who uses tensorflow these days?

I'm working on a speech model in tensorflow. What should I be using?

[nshm → echelon]

It more depends on features you already implemented. Check the arxiv file, if you do not have all those features already (lookahead lm, proper sentencepiece, label smoothing), consider this espresso.

[Nursie → nshm]

I think the question was more on what framework should be preferred to tensorflow now?

Or at least that's my question - as someone who has taken an interest in this area since the deepdream days, but is only now considering diving in fully, what platforms should I be looking at, if not tensorflow?

[nshm → Nursie]

There is no single framework as you see, to dive fully you need to explore all of them. Each has some useful features.