DeepSpeech on Windows WSL

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7 min readDec 6, 2017

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In the era of voice assistants it was about time for a decent open source effort to show up. The kind folks at Mozilla implemented the Baidu DeepSpeech architecture and published the project on GitHub. Reportedly they achieve quite a low word error rate of 6.5% which is close to the human level. Nope, humans are not 100% accurate! Instead they have a 5.83% word error rate. DeepSpeech, unlike the offerings of Alexa or Google Assistant SDK, runs…

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