Mozilla Formally Discontinues Its DeepSpeech Project (phoronix.com)
(Wednesday June 25, 2025 @05:30PM (msmash)
from the all-good-things dept.)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/06/25/1851201/mozilla-formally-discontinues-its-deepspeech-project
- Source link: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mozilla-DeepSpeech-Discontinued
An anonymous reader shares a report:
> One of the interesting projects engaged in by Mozilla that directly wasn't related to their web browser efforts was DeepSpeech, [1]an embedded/offline speech-to-text engine . To not much surprise given the lack of activity in recent years, last week they finally and formally discontinued the open-source project.
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> Mozilla DeepSpeech was a promising speech-to-text engine with great performance for real-time communication even when running on Raspberry Pi SBCs and other low-power systems.
[1] https://tech.slashdot.org/story/17/12/02/0442235/mozilla-releases-open-source-speech-recognition-model-massive-voice-dataset
> One of the interesting projects engaged in by Mozilla that directly wasn't related to their web browser efforts was DeepSpeech, [1]an embedded/offline speech-to-text engine . To not much surprise given the lack of activity in recent years, last week they finally and formally discontinued the open-source project.
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> Mozilla DeepSpeech was a promising speech-to-text engine with great performance for real-time communication even when running on Raspberry Pi SBCs and other low-power systems.
[1] https://tech.slashdot.org/story/17/12/02/0442235/mozilla-releases-open-source-speech-recognition-model-massive-voice-dataset
Well then (Score:2)
by cascadingstylesheet ( 140919 )
> Mozilla DeepSpeech was a promising speech-to-text engine with great performance for real-time communication even when running on Raspberry Pi SBCs and other low-power systems.
If it's open source, so promising, and has such great performance, surely someone will fork it?
no longer relevant (Score:2)
by ZipNada ( 10152669 )
Other people have already done it. Here's one that I installed and ran on a Pi 5, it works great.
[1]https://github.com/moonshine-a... [github.com]
[1] https://github.com/moonshine-ai/moonshine/blob/main/demo/README.md#demo-live-captioning-from-microphone-input
Makes sense (Score:2)
I never understood Mozilla's foray into AI.
There's just nothing about Mozilla that suggests to me they are experts on the subject matter and have much to contribute in the area. I could be wrong, but Mozilla is so tightly associated to the web that it just was a hard sell to me that their AI efforts were going to go anywhere from the start.