Hi @kreid,
in general, I think this is a great idea.
I just wanted to notify you that I already did some work on this field with my DeepSpeech-Polyglot project:
Pros:
- Currently supports 5 different languages (German, Spanish, French, Italian, Polish)
- Covers the whole training process, with data preprocessing, language model building, training and exporting.
- Adding support for new languages is also very easy, you just have to add a new
alphabet_xx.txtfile and extend the special words and character replacement file (langdicts.json).
Cons:
- I will soon drop support of direct integration into DeepSpeech, because I’m trying to replace it with an improved network architecture (I’m not finished with it yet).
I’m open for a full integration of the exported networks into DeepSpeech again, but this requires some effort, mainly in the native client code, and currently I don’t have the time for it (I already started a discussion about this here: Integration of DeepSpeech-Polyglot's new networks - #10 by dan.bmh).