
It has smaller and faster models than ever before, and even has a TensorFlow Lite model that runs faster than real time on a single core of a Raspberry Pi 4. Last month, Mozilla released DeepSpeech 0.6 along with models for US English. Though these technologies are hard and the learning curve is steep, but are becoming increasingly accessible. If you are just-a-programmer like me, you might be itching to get a piece of action and hack something. Automated Speech Recognition (ASR) and Natural Language Understanding (NLU/NLP) are the key technologies enabling it.

Siri, Alexa, Google Assistant, all aim to help you talk to computers and not just touch and type.

Voice assistants and Conversational AI are one of the hottest tech right now.
