Official documentation
About the Kaldi project
Kaldi project, kaldi-asr.org, n.d.
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- What it is
- The official About page of Kaldi, the open-source speech recognition toolkit. It states the license (Apache License v2.0) and says the toolkit is intended for speech recognition researchers.
- How much weight it carries
- Official project page, so it is authoritative for license and intended audience. It describes a research toolkit, not a packaged dictation product, and it does not give current accuracy figures.
Facts taken from this source
- Kaldi, the speech recognition toolkit written in C++, is licensed under the Apache License v2.0.
“Kaldi is a toolkit for speech recognition written in C++ and licensed under the Apache License v2.0.” (About the Kaldi project)
- The Kaldi project says its goal is to provide complete recipes for building speech recognition systems from widely available databases, such as those from the Linguistic Data Consortium.
“Our goal is to make available complete recipes for building speech recognition systems, that work from widely available databases such as those provided by the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC)” (About the Kaldi project)
- The Kaldi project says its toolkit is intended for use by speech recognition researchers.
“Kaldi is intended for use by speech recognition researchers. For more detailed history and list of contributors” (About the Kaldi project)
- The Kaldi project says it is not a speech recognition toolkit for beginners, because it lets you do many operations that do not make sense.
“It will allow you to do many kinds of operations that don't make sense.” (About the Kaldi project)