Fact · Speech recognition
Hugging Face's Audio Course describes speech recognition, also called automatic speech recognition (ASR) or speech-to-text (STT), as one of the most popular and exciting spoken language processing tasks.
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In the source's own words
“Speech recognition, also known as automatic speech recognition (ASR) or speech-to-text (STT), is one of the most popular and exciting spoken language processing tasks.”
Hugging Face Audio Course, Chapter 5: Automatic Speech Recognition, Hugging Face, n.d., Introduction.
Open the original- What it measures
- The chapter is a free, hands-on unit on pretrained models, datasets, evaluation and fine-tuning for ASR.
- What it does not show
- The course is written for the Hugging Face tools. Its claims about popularity are the course's own framing.