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I'd check out coqui https://coqui.ai/

It's well-documented and works basically out of box. I wish the STT models bundled were closer to the quality of Kaldi but the ease-of-use has no comparisons.

And maybe with time it will surpass Kaldi in quality too.

[deknos]

is this free as in speech and beer and selfhostable? and not opencore?

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Free as in speech and beer, self-hostable, and I don't know about opencore but everything seems freely available right now.