<story><title>Open Source Speech Recognition</title><url>http://chrislord.net/index.php/2016/06/01/open-source-speech-recognition/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>johnwheeler</author><text>&amp;quot;Amazon Alexa skills JS API...There isn’t really any alternative right now...&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I want to take this opportunity to plug an Alexa Skills Kit API (in Python) I just dropped:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;johnwheeler&amp;#x2F;flask-ask&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;johnwheeler&amp;#x2F;flask-ask&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It does a lot of things the JS API doesn&amp;#x27;t: Jinja templates, decorator-based intent routing, slot defaults&amp;#x2F;conversions, and request signature verification to name a few.</text></comment>
<story><title>Open Source Speech Recognition</title><url>http://chrislord.net/index.php/2016/06/01/open-source-speech-recognition/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>afsina</author><text>Any reason why not to use Kaldi (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;kaldi-asr&amp;#x2F;kaldi&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;kaldi-asr&amp;#x2F;kaldi&lt;/a&gt;)? AFAIK it uses most of the state of the art algorithms.</text></comment>