Many of the latest machine learning and data science tools purport to be easy to work with compared to previous generations of such frameworks and libraries.
Chinese search engine giant Baidu now has an open source project in the same vein: a machine learning system it claims is easier to train and use because it exposes its functions through Python libraries.
PaddlePaddle — “Paddle” stands for “PArallel Distributed Deep LEarning” — was developed by Baidu to augment many of its own products with deep learning.
Baidu touted PaddlePaddle’s speech transcription in Chinese, either for transcribing broadcasts or as a speech-to-text system to replace keyboards in smartphones. The company claims it needed 20,000 hours of audio as training material to achieve these results with its framework.
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