DeepSpeech no longer maintained

[JRMeyer]

Hi there! I'd seen this project back when DeepSpeech was actively maintained, and I'm glad to see it's still being useful to others!

In case you didn't know, the old repo doesn't seem to be maintained any longer (for more info, mozilla/DeepSpeech#3693)

however, we (the old DeepSpeech team) split off the project into a new fork, where it's very actively maintained:)

We also recently released a new English model which is much more accurate than the older versions... switching to Coqui should be very easy since the API hasn't changed significantly... but under the hood it's better:)

check out the new repo here: https://github.com/coqui-ai/stt

[MainRo]

Hello @JRMeyer, thanks for the information. BTW, I follow your work with coqui :)
I thought that you already had a serving solution in your repos. However, I just re-looked at it and it seems that it is not the case.
If you confirm that you do not provide a similar tool, I will update the code with the coqui API.

[JRMeyer]

Hi @MainRo 😄

You're right, we don't have any close analog to what you're building here. The closest thing we do have is probably the stt-model-manager, which uses a server local to support a user-facing web GUI. But your repo is useful for many contexts outside a simple web UI running locally.

So, I think it makes sense to update. If you have any questions/headaches, don't hesitate to ping us in our chatroom --> gitter.im/coqui-ai/stt ... we'll be happy to help:)

[Cliabhach]

@MainRo I've got a proof-of-concept with Coqui up at https://github.com/Cliabhach/coqui-server/tree/switch-to-coqui-stt - if that looks acceptable, I'd be happy to open a pull request.

[MainRo]

Thanks @Cliabhach,

I have difficulties dedicating time to most of my projects currently. So I could not look at that myself up to now. I will look at your code and come back to you soon.

[MainRo]

@Cliabhach I just read your evolutions. It looks great, I'd be happy to merge them here.

[Cliabhach]

Wonderful! PR #42 is now open for review.

[MainRo]

Thanks, I will completely drop the support of deepspeech and add few improvement before a release.