[jimmychangas]

People are quick to criticize Facebook here on HN, but this release is awesome. I believe open source speech recognition is still lacking, and any contribution is very welcome. CMU Sphinx and Kaldi are great, but it feels like the most recent advances in the field are still hidden behind paid services.

[StreamBright]

People have evey right to criticize Facebook and open sourcing some software won’t make the bad stuff go away, just like criminal charges are not deopped just because you donated some to a charity.

[pbalau]

You would be amazed about how little comments does an article about FB doing "this tech thing" attracts, vs a generic FB is bad. There are terribly few people that can comment on a tech subject, but everyone and their dog has an opinion about how FB destroys humanity

[stevenjohns]

So what you're saying is that there are more people who can associate with social ethics vs. specialised areas of programming? And this is a revelation?

Perhaps it might help you if you look at it from the perspective that what Facebook has open-sourced here isn't affecting a billion people's privacy and it's not being willfully used as a tool of intimidation and propaganda by governments.

That's just a couple thoughts on why other posts might attract more comments.

[mempko]

People confuse Facebook the org with Facebook the workers. Don't confuse the great work it's workers do with the what management decides.

[chrisbrandow]

That logic doesn’t generalize too well.

[oliwarner]

What worries me —very much in-keeping with existing criticisms— is what Facebook wants to do with this tech. Voice is not a core business for them. Yet.

They are demonstrably very good at using technology and their omnipresence against their users (to monetize them without their knowledge).