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David Huggins-Daines

dhdaines
Sainte-Adèle, Québec

Hello! I'm an independent researcher and consultant based in Sainte-Adèle, Québec. I'm probably best known as the originator (but I would not say "author") of the PocketSphinx speech recognizer, which for reasons I cannot fathom, is still widely used by a lot of people. To see what I'm working on lately, it's best to see my blog.

In general, I spend more time deleting than writing code. I have an overwhelming bias towards things that are small, simple, explicit, accessible and either well-documented or self-documenting, though I don't always live up to this ideal. Despite the ever-flowing stream of snark that I produce about it, I actually think that JavaScript and the modern browser is the closest we've ever gotten to a universal Lisp machine, and I'm focusing all of my efforts on this platform.

Featured work

  1. cmusphinx/pocketsphinx

    A small speech recognizer

  2. cmusphinx/sphinxtrain

    Acoustic model trainer for CMU Sphinx

    Roff 183
  3. ReadAlongs/SoundSwallower

    An even smaller speech recognizer / force aligner

  4. dhdaines/soundswallower-demo

    Simple demo of client-side speech recognition

    TypeScript 3
  5. dhdaines/alignment-demo

    Demo of client-side text-to-audio alignment

    TypeScript 1
  6. dhdaines/rustfst-g2p

    Train finite-state grapheme-to-phoneme transducers

    Rust

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