# DeepSpeech Projects at AI Tinkerers

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An open-source speech-to-text engine utilizing Baidu's Deep Speech architecture and implemented via TensorFlow.

DeepSpeech transforms audio into text using a production-ready model trained on thousands of hours of voice data. It leverages a recurrent neural network (RNN) to map spectrograms directly to character sequences, bypassing traditional phonetic engineering. Developed by Mozilla, the engine supports real-time transcription on hardware ranging from Raspberry Pi 4 devices to high-end NVIDIA GPUs. Developers integrate the technology through Python, C, and Java bindings to build private, offline voice interfaces without relying on proprietary cloud providers.

- Official technology site: https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech
- Public AI Tinkerers demos and talks: 1
- Result page: 1 of 1

## Recent Public Talks and Demos

### [YT shorts finder](https://austin.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_TpbSnDWuX0s)

A way to extract meaning from youtube shorts and search over your personalized database of them, using a mix of vision models, speech transcription models, and general purpose LLMs

- Event context: Community AI Demos - September Edition — 2024-09-12 — Austin
- Public talk page: https://austin.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_TpbSnDWuX0s

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