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by yorwba 921 days ago
DeepSpeech is not competition for NVIDIA, quite the contrary. More people using DeepSpeech means more GPUs sold.

Seems more likely that Mozilla would have shut down both projects, but NVIDIA funding saved the more important one.

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Does speech to text require that much compute?

EDIT: Nvm, there seems to be a new project called Sayboard that does everything on your phone:

https://github.com/ElishaAz/Sayboard

(though switching from Swiftkey is a bit annoying)