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Preprint Paper on SpeechBrain: A General-Purpose Speech Toolkit (arxiv.org)
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In plain words: A free, open toolkit bundles everything needed to build speech systems—training code, ready-made recipes, and pretrained models—so anyone with basic Python can try speech technology. Across many speech tasks it matches or beats the best published results.

Abstract · SpeechBrain: A General-Purpose Speech Toolkit

SpeechBrain is an open-source and all-in-one speech toolkit. It is designed to facilitate the research and development of neural speech processing technologies by being simple, flexible, user-friendly, and well-documented. This paper describes the core architecture designed to support several tasks of common interest, allowing users to naturally conceive, compare and share novel speech processing pipelines. SpeechBrain achieves competitive or state-of-the-art performance in a wide range of speech benchmarks. It also provides training recipes, pretrained models, and inference scripts for popular speech datasets, as well as tutorials which allow anyone with basic Python proficiency to familiarize themselves with speech technologies.

Mirco Ravanelli, Titouan Parcollet, Peter Plantinga, Aku Rouhe, Samuele Cornell, Loren Lugosch, Cem Subakan, Nauman Dawalatabad, Abdelwahab Heba, Jianyuan Zhong, Ju-Chieh Chou, Sung-Lin Yeh, et al.
arXiv:2106.04624 · eess.AS, cs.AI, cs.LG, cs.SD · submitted Jun 8, 2021
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