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…I really liked came before the LLM boom. Mozilla made a speech-to-text engine called [DeepSpeech]( https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech ) for running on-device when you use dictation in the browser. Apparently, it was discontinued last…

comment by andrewl-hn · 2026-10-02 · in Mozilla shutting down Solo AI website creator

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DeepSpeech Is Discontinued (2020)

story by LorenDB · 2025-06-25 · 38 comments

As I understand it DeepSpeech is no longer actively maintained by Mozilla: https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech/issues/3693 For Text To Speech, I've found Piper TTS useful (for situations where "quality"=="realistic"/"natual"):…

comment by follower · 2024-05-02 · in ESpeak-ng: speech synthesizer with more than one hundred languages and accents

DeepSpeech? https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech

comment by salynchnew · 2023-12-05 · in Common Voice

https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech maybe

comment by adr1an · 2023-10-22 · in Ask HN: Speech to text models, are they usable yet?

…ttps://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/s... https://picovoice.ai/platform/cheetah/ https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech

comment by dilek · 2023-07-17 · in Speech-to-Text in Real Time

…course pretraining large models is much more expensive). So the main gain will be publicity. [0]: https://github.com/mozilla/deepspeech [1]: https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-translations/ [2]: https://research.mozilla.org/

comment by espadrine · 2023-03-15 · in Responsible AI Challenge

Mozilla has an open source tect-to-speech project, called deep speech. https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech

comment by jacooper · 2022-12-12 · in My matrix bot that transcribes speech in audio messages

…part is actually called DeepSpeech: https://opensource.com/article/22/1/voice-text-mozilla-deeps... https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech

comment by AlbertoGP · 2022-09-19 · in Ask HN: Open-source video transcribing software?

…if all the AI speech recognition systems use it. That would be like including libstdc++, too. [1] https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech/tree/master/native_cli... [2] https://github.com/kensho-technologies/pyctcdecode [3]…

comment by fxtentacle · 2022-08-10 · in Show HN: State-of-the-art German speech recognition in 284 lines of C++

…didn't want to do that. Mozilla has been doing quite a bit of work in the area though (for example https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech ), hopefully to enable these features locally in the future. IMO it's good if we don't make web…

comment by SahAssar · 2022-08-07 · in Ask HN: Any technical reasons Google Docs can't do voice typing in Firefox?

…know ReSpeaker [1] but maybe some off the shelf conference USB microphones would work as well. [0] https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech [1] https://wiki.seeedstudio.com/ReSpeaker_4_Mic_Array_for_Raspb...

comment by abetusk · 2021-12-15 · in Ask HN: Private Alternatives to Alexa?

…is not English :( Mozilla DeepSpeech seems to have well trained models, from what I remember. [1]: https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech

comment by denysvitali · 2021-11-12 · in Mp4grep – search in transcriptions of audio/video files

…research paper[2]. Unsurprisingly, Deep Speech requires a corpus such as... Common Voice. [1] https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech [2] https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.5567

comment by orra · 2021-08-05 · in Mozilla Common Voice Adds 16 New Languages and 4,600 New Hours of Speech

If anyone is interested, Mozilla’s Deepspeech ( https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech ) is also quite a solid open source offline alternative, and runs quite well even on low-end hardware like a Raspberry Pi.

comment by user_7832 · 2021-07-07 · in Show HN: Open-source real-time transcription playground (React, Python, GCP)

https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech

comment by contingencies · 2021-04-19 · in Ask HN: How do you run better meetings?

…add more training data? [1]: https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2011/06/21/how-to-fit-an-elep... [2]: https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech

comment by magicalhippo · 2021-03-04 · in Understanding deep learning requires rethinking generalization

…frame) and then pass it to tesseract. For speech to text.. if english, try mozilla's deepspeech? https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech Might be fun to try. [0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27568254/how-to-extract-...

comment by voiper1 · 2021-02-10 · in Base64.ai – Extract text, data, photos and more from all types of docs

…be able to do this (speech recognition) in less than real time (because I don't have a GPU) using https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech

comment by mikewarot · 2021-01-05 · in Descript – A collaborative audio/video editor that works like a doc

…good performance :D this is still in early stage development. I am looking for contributers :) [0] https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech [1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.06621

comment by iceychris · 2020-11-15 · in Show HN: LibreASR – An On-Premises, Streaming Speech Recognition System

I guess Mozilla's own speech to text ( https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech ) isn't good enough, so they have to use Google's?

comment by ipsum2 · 2020-08-09 · in Firefox Voice

This might be useful to use along side with DeepSpeech ( https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech ), which doesn't work very well in noisy environments.

comment by dsteinman · 2020-07-18 · in NoiseTorch: Real-time microphone noise suppression on Linux written in Go

…are welcome! [1]: https://github.com/OpenASR/idear/ [2]: https://cmusphinx.github.io/ [3]: https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech [4]: https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api [5]: https://github.com/kaldi-asr/kaldi [6]:…

comment by bmc7505 · 2020-06-13 · in Ask HN: Is there any work being done in speech-to-code with deep learning?

…made publicly available with the source code of the networks they used to train and deploy it? [0] https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech/releases/v0.6.0

comment by qchris · 2020-05-15 · in A highly efficient, real-time text-to-speech system deployed on CPUs

…to most in the open source realm. [1] https://aws.amazon.com/transcribe/pricing/?nc=sn&loc=3 [2] https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech

comment by jjice · 2020-05-01 · in Show HN: Full Text Search on Podcasts

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DeepSpeech 0.7.0

story by doener · 2020-04-27 · 0 comments

…but another open source speech recognition model I heard about recently is Mozilla DeepSpeech: https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/12/deepspeech-0-6-mozillas-sp... I haven't had a chance to test it, and I…

comment by coder543 · 2020-04-17 · in Building an end-to-end Speech Recognition model in PyTorch

What about mozilla? https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech

comment by taf2 · 2020-03-27 · in Mycroft – An open-source voice assistant

…It is also actively developed by several engineers. http://voice.mozilla.org/en/datasets and http://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech/

comment by ftyers · 2020-03-14 · in Ask HN: Non-cloud voice recognition for home use?

> It would be cool with a completely offline SpeechRecognition https://github.com/mozilla/deepspeech This runs completely offline and is fast enough to run even on CPUs or smaller devices. Note though that it's not as accurate as an engine…

comment by est31 · 2020-02-15 · in Exploring the Web Speech API

Every release mentions the word error rate, its interesting to watch the WER improve over time: https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech/releases

comment by StudentStuff · 2020-02-04 · in Show HN: Text-to-speech and speech-to-text open-source software stack

…the heads up. I was able to find the right links though, for example the WAV transcriber is at : https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech/blob/v0.6.0/examples/v...

comment by sgt101 · 2019-12-05 · in DeepSpeech 0.6

…output: https://2r4s9p1yi1fa2jd7j43zph8r-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/fil... Or, if you prefer the code: https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech/blob/0427c1572ac8f7253... (well, I suppose technically it's in https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech/b…

comment by candiodari · 2019-12-05 · in DeepSpeech 0.6

There's a basic example here transcribing from an audio file: https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech/tree/v0.6.0/#project-d... There are also examples transcribing from the microphone as I mentioned above:…

comment by reubenmorais · 2019-12-05 · in DeepSpeech 0.6

…We have a few examples with microphone input, but they're all based on voice activity detection: https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech/tree/master/examples I should write an example that is just continuous streaming and output without any…

comment by reubenmorais · 2019-12-05 · in DeepSpeech 0.6

…your text and then experiment with it. We have some documentation on how to create the LM here: https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech/tree/v0.6.0/data/lm It's not super detailed, but I'd be happy to answer questions on our Discourse:…

comment by reubenmorais · 2019-12-05 · in DeepSpeech 0.6

…normal daily speech The models of Mozilla's DeepSpeech STT engine take 1.8 GB in compressed form: https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech/releases/tag/v0.5.1 The main cause for the large size is the language model. They tried using different…

comment by est31 · 2019-11-05 · in Bringing Google Live Transcribe's Speech Engine to Everyone

Mozilla has done some work on text-to-speech and the other way around too (I think). [ https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech ] Not so surprising that they want to stay on the cutting edge. The best way to shape the future is too invent it…

comment by icandoit · 2019-10-18 · in Mozilla's initiative to help teach machines how real people speak

…fine tune with your own dataset). They have an example that accepts streaming from the microphone: https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech/tree/master/examples/m... See the last full release here: https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech/release…

comment by TaylorAlexander · 2019-09-04 · in A 2019 Guide for Automatic Speech Recognition

Maybe try Mozilla DeepSpeech. https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech

comment by thekyle · 2019-09-03 · in Android 10

…efforts with speech recognition could help and as a bonus the project is open-source and adaptable. https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech The WER they've achieved is already good for general recognition and through experimenting with…

comment by nmstoker · 2019-08-10 · in What Does a Coder Do If They Can't Type?

…pulled the data ala google voice. 3 years ago mozilla dropped deepspeech which changed everything - https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech i have since replaced step 3 with my own deepspeech server. none of my data goes to any of the major…

comment by o-__-o · 2019-08-08 · in The Fully Remote Attack Surface of the iPhone

I think there are a few companies running Mozilla DeepSpeech in production: https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech IIRC its mostly TensorFlow & Python though.

comment by allana · 2019-08-07 · in Ask HN: Anybody running serious Rust web application in production?

mozilla has open source projects for both speech-to-text and text-to-speech, among other things https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech https://voice.mozilla.org/en

comment by Barrin92 · 2019-06-04 · in Adafruit Founder Limor Fried: Open-Source Hardware Revolution [video]

…to develop an open source NLP engine[1], so I have high hopes for it. [0] https://mycroft.ai/ [1] https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech

comment by prophesi · 2019-04-11 · in Is Anyone Listening to You on Alexa? A Global Team Reviews Audio

…like the text to speech is provided by http://www.festvox.org/flite/ and the speech to text uses https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech . How do those compare to the major online providers?

comment by ilaksh · 2019-02-15 · in Leon: An open-source personal assistant

Mozilla DeepSpeech is pretty active considering the holidays: https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech/pulse Looks like they'll be having their v0.4 release sometime this month?

comment by StudentStuff · 2019-01-07 · in Amazon Says It Has Over 10k Employees Working on Alexa, Echo

…getting "only" 5.15% WER [4]. Still better than what Mozilla DeepSpeech can deliver, though. [1] https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech/releases/latest [2] https://voice.mozilla.org [3] https://github.com/facebookresearch/wav2letter [4]…

comment by yorwba · 2018-12-31 · in Writing and coding by voice with Talon

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DeepSpeech – A TensorFlow Implementation of Baidu's DeepSpeech Architecture

story by rubyn00bie · 2018-12-21 · 0 comments

Does anyone know ho this compares with Mozilla's DeepSpeech? https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech

comment by Yoric · 2018-12-21 · in Facebook open-sources a speech-recognition system and a machine learning library