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* bidirectional - build representations of the current word by looking into both the future and the past

* pre-trained - train on lots of language modelling data (e.g. billions of words of wikipedia) and then train on the task you really care about but starting from the parameters learnt from the language modelling task.

that's exactly what we do at speechmatics.com - feel free to give us a try and make the most of the free credits

Great, I just submitted the first audio file for transcription. Looking forward to seeing the output.

Will be interesting to compare with http://www.speechmatics.com

There's no hint of pricing that I could find on their page. Do you know about their pricing model?

If you sign up you can scroll down and see the pricing on https://www.speechmatics.com/account/

University of Bristol has a great masters conversion course

"cheerful" in german?

Sounds pretty sexist to me

Depends, of course, on the architecture but you could be looking at a ~x50 speedup.

Yes, you can't come up with a hard number, but a 10x speedup is really the baseline. 50x and more are not out of the question.

Don't live for yourself