The Clarity Lab group reuses mature open source libraries for speech recognition, computer vision AND question answering.
They link these into a whole using what appears to be a minimal amount of glue and then proceed to optimize certain components by trying out to make a multithread (hence CPU multicore) or a GPU port for bottlenecks.
In my opinion, a major contribution is a GPU-optimized Machine Learning thingamajig (GMM) that's plugged back into a well known frequently used speech recognition library (Sphinx).
Superficially, one would expect a publication to some AI, ML or Robotics workshop/conference/journal. However, if you spend time digging through the source code you will see that there is zero contribution in these areas. Hence their first publication is to what appears to me to a be a systems research publication. The conclusion of their paper talks about total cost of ownership in datacenters by using GPUs etc.
The amount of marketing and vague biz-dev type speak almost made me discard this whole site as BS, but now I see that if nothing else, they've given away a GPU accelerated ASR library under a BSD license. Cool work, dudes and dudettes.
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The Clarity Lab group reuses mature open source libraries for speech recognition, computer vision AND question answering.
They link these into a whole using what appears to be a minimal amount of glue and then proceed to optimize certain components by trying out to make a multithread (hence CPU multicore) or a GPU port for bottlenecks.
In my opinion, a major contribution is a GPU-optimized Machine Learning thingamajig (GMM) that's plugged back into a well known frequently used speech recognition library (Sphinx).
Superficially, one would expect a publication to some AI, ML or Robotics workshop/conference/journal. However, if you spend time digging through the source code you will see that there is zero contribution in these areas. Hence their first publication is to what appears to me to a be a systems research publication. The conclusion of their paper talks about total cost of ownership in datacenters by using GPUs etc.
The amount of marketing and vague biz-dev type speak almost made me discard this whole site as BS, but now I see that if nothing else, they've given away a GPU accelerated ASR library under a BSD license. Cool work, dudes and dudettes.