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by numpad 1406 days ago
...which however don't clickbait by using LoC as a primary selling point.
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I wouldn't call it clickbait.

Mozilla's DeepSpeech is so large that you can't really read it and understand it. This one is 10x less code while recognition quality is 75% better (lower relative word error rate).

So this one is small enough that you can read the source code if you want to, while DeepSpeech is not.

Good point – calling this clickbait might be too cynical.

From this perspective I can definitely get behind advertising the project with the LoC measurement. Subjectively, I still find this to be a bit of a "not telling the whole truth", however I also only ever toyed around with speech recognition ai.