ASR, or Automatic Speech Recognition, refers to the problem of getting a program to automatically transcribe spoken language (speech-to-text). Our goal is usually to have a model that minimizes the Word Error Rate (WER) metric when transcribing speech input. In other words, given some audio file (e.g. a WAV file) containing speech.
The best place to get started with TAO Toolkit - ASR would be the TAO - ASR jupyter notebooks sample enclosed in this sample. This resource has two notebooks included.
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file and deploy it to Riva.If you are a seasoned Conversation AI developer we recommend installing TAO and referring to the TAO documentation for detailed information.
Please make sure to install the following before proceeding further:
Note: A compatible NVIDIA GPU would be required.
We recommend that you install TAO Toolkit inside a virtual environment. The steps to do the same are as follows
virtualenv -p python3 <name of venv>
source <name of venv>/bin/activate
pip install jupyter notebook # If you need to run the notebooks
TAO Toolkit is a python package that is hosted in nvidia python package index. You may install by using python’s package manager, pip.
pip install nvidia-pyindex
pip install nvidia-tao
To download the jupyter notebook please:
ngc registry resource download-version "nvidia/tao/speechtotext_citrinet_notebook:v1.0"
jupyter notebook --ip 0.0.0.0 --allow-root --port 8888
By downloading and using the models and resources packaged with TAO Toolkit Conversational AI, you would be accepting the terms of the Riva license