# Introducing the OpenSTT Project
**URL:** https://community.openconversational.ai/t/introducing-the-openstt-project/474
**Category:** OpenSTT - Grokotron
**Created:** [March 14, 2016, 7:39pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/introducing-the-openstt-project/474 "2016-03-14T19:39:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@ryanleesipes](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/ryanleesipes)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2016, 7:39pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/introducing-the-openstt-project/474/1 "2016-03-14T19:39:38Z")
We are chasing the Watson AI XPrize, and the first project we are tackling as part of this initiative is an Open Speech-to-Text project called [OpenSTT](http://openstt.org).
Check out the [XPrize page](https://mycroft.ai/xprize) on our website for more info.
To share ideas you can post them here, on this forum, using the OpenSTT category.
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### Author:  [@ryanleesipes](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/ryanleesipes)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2016, 7:40pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/introducing-the-openstt-project/474/2 "2016-03-14T19:40:03Z")
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### Author:  [@Crieloue\_Gilles](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/Crieloue_Gilles)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2016, 7:56pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/introducing-the-openstt-project/474/3 "2016-03-14T19:56:41Z")
Congratulations guys. Hope you will get far 😉
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### Author:  [@javiercani](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/javiercani)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2016, 9:40pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/introducing-the-openstt-project/474/4 "2016-03-14T21:40:37Z")
Congratulations!!! I will contribute in all that i can. See ya
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### Author:  [@mcampo](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/mcampo)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2016, 12:14am UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/introducing-the-openstt-project/474/5 "2016-03-15T00:14:36Z")
Awesome, looking forward to this!
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### Author:  [@wolfv](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/wolfv)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2016, 10:47am UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/introducing-the-openstt-project/474/6 "2016-03-15T10:47:07Z")
Great to hear!
I would suggest checking out Kaldi which I think is really good to build upon (seems to be much better than CMU Sphinx, but I don’t have tons of knowledge there).
Otherwise I think CNN + LSTM is the way to go! 😉
Good language models are dearly needed in the Open Source Community, for sure.
PS: there seems to be at least one model for Kaldi in the open: [https://github.com/alumae/kaldi-gstreamer-server](https://github.com/alumae/kaldi-gstreamer-server)
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### Author:  [@ryanleesipes](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/ryanleesipes)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2016, 2:13pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/introducing-the-openstt-project/474/7 "2016-03-15T14:13:35Z")
@wolfv very good feedback. I’d been looking for a Kaldi implementation out in the open and hadn’t found one. I will play with this.
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### Author:  [@jdorleans](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/jdorleans)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2016, 8:59pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/introducing-the-openstt-project/474/8 "2016-03-15T20:59:21Z")
Hey @wolfv, thx very much for sharing this. We’ve been looking into Kaldi project in the past and it seems very promising! It’s on the top of our list to try.
I was wondering if you are interested in joining the Machine Learning Team. If so, let me know more about you by commenting on this topic: [The Machine Learning Team](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/the-machine-learning-team/477/1)
P.S. Everyone is welcome to participate on the ML Team. Join us, share your experience and interest by commenting on the above topic.
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### Author:  [@thehellmaker](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/thehellmaker)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2016, 5:51pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/introducing-the-openstt-project/474/9 "2016-05-29T17:51:32Z")
Hi Guys,
I was wondering if you guys could keep us updated on whats been happening in this space. I didn’t see any commits on OpenSTT Github account as well.
Looking fwd to hear back from you guys. Its good stuff mycroft has taken up.
Cheers,
Akash A
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### Author:  [@alopatka](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/alopatka)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2016, 6:17pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/introducing-the-openstt-project/474/10 "2016-06-08T18:17:21Z")
I heard about the OpenSTT Project through the Linux Luddites podcast ([https://linuxluddites.com/shows/episode-78/](https://linuxluddites.com/shows/episode-78/)). One quick idea for finding data to use for testing/validation is the LibriVox community. There are recordings of public domain books read by volunteers in many languages ([https://librivox.org/](https://librivox.org/))
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### Author:  [@etiennebalit](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/etiennebalit)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2016, 3:16pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/introducing-the-openstt-project/474/11 "2016-06-10T15:16:09Z")
There is actually a [dataset for automated speech recognition](http://www.openslr.org/12/) based on LibriVox audiobooks, and there is a [Kaldi model](http://www.kaldi-asr.org/downloads/build/6/trunk/egs/) learned on this dataset.