Scribosermo: Fast Speech-to-Text models for German and other Languages

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• gitlab.com/jaco-assistant/corcua
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• gitlab.com/jaco-assistant/scribosermo
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• gitlab.com/Jaco-Assistant/deepspeech-polyglot
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Abstract

Recent Speech-to-Text models often require a large amount of hardware resources and are mostly trained in English. This paper presents Speech-to-Text models for German, as well as for Spanish and French with special features: (a) They are small and run in real-time on microcontrollers like a RaspberryPi. (b) Using a pretrained English model, they can be trained on consumer-grade hardware with a relatively small dataset. (c) The models are competitive with other solutions and outperform them in German. In this respect, the models combine advantages of other approaches, which only include a subset of the presented features. Furthermore, the paper provides a new library for handling datasets, which is focused on easy extension with additional datasets and shows an optimized way for transfer-learning new languages using a pretrained model from another language with a similar alphabet.

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