I ran the terminal commands listed at https://deepspeech.readthedocs.io/en/latest/?badge=latest, and it ran into a number of errors, see below. I thought maybe it was a Python issue, but attempting to apt-get python3, got “python3 is already the newest version (3.6.7-1~18.04).” Thanks!
user@galliumos:~$ # Create and activate a virtualenv
user@galliumos:~$ virtualenv -p python3 $HOME/tmp/deepspeech-venv/
bash: virtualenv: command not found
user@galliumos:~$ source $HOME/tmp/deepspeech-venv/bin/activate
bash: /home/user/tmp/deepspeech-venv/bin/activate: No such file or directory
user@galliumos:~$
user@galliumos:~$ # Install DeepSpeech
user@galliumos:~$ pip3 install deepspeech
bash: pip3: command not found
user@galliumos:~$
user@galliumos:~$ # Download pre-trained English model files
user@galliumos:~$ curl -LO https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech/releases/download/v0.8.1/deepspeech-0.8.1-models.pbmm
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 652 100 652 0 0 2166 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 2173
100 180M 100 180M 0 0 10.3M 0 0:00:17 0:00:17 --:--:-- 13.1M
user@galliumos:~$ curl -LO https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech/releases/download/v0.8.1/deepspeech-0.8.1-models.scorer
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 654 100 654 0 0 1672 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 1668^[
100 909M 100 909M 0 0 13.3M 0 0:01:08 0:01:08 --:--:-- 11.6M
user@galliumos:~$
user@galliumos:~$ # Download example audio files
user@galliumos:~$ curl -LO https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech/releases/download/v0.8.1/audio-0.8.1.tar.gz
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 642 100 642 0 0 1969 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 1969
100 192k 100 192k 0 0 210k 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 1425k
user@galliumos:~$ tar xvf audio-0.8.1.tar.gz
audio/
audio/2830-3980-0043.wav
audio/Attribution.txt
audio/4507-16021-0012.wav
audio/8455-210777-0068.wav
audio/License.txt
user@galliumos:~$
user@galliumos:~$ # Transcribe an audio file
user@galliumos:~$ deepspeech --model deepspeech-0.8.1-models.pbmm --scorer deepspeech-0.8.1-models.scorer --audio audio/2830-3980-0043.wav
bash: deepspeech: command not found
user@galliumos:~$ ^Cpre-trained English model is available for use and can be downloaded following the instructions in
user@galliumos:~$