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What are common tools for speech recognition ? What are the advantages and disadvantages of each?

Posted on February 21, 2019 by MLInterview

There are several ready tools for speech recognition, that one can use to train custom models given the appropriate dataset. CMU Sphinx : Used more in an academic setting, one of the oldest libraries. Kaldi – hard to set up, very flexible to use. Typically used by academics. Deep Speech – Easy to set up,…

What is speaker segmentation in speech recognition ? How do you use it ?

Posted on February 14, 2019February 14, 2019 by MLNerds

Speaker diarization or speaker segmentation is the process of automatically assigning a speaker identity to each segment of the audio file. Segmenting by speaker is very useful in several applications to understand who said what in a conversation. Typically speaker information is crucial for applications such as emotion detection, behavioural analysis or topic analysis of…