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Co-authored-by: Jimmy Vargo <james@ayo.tokyo>
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+# Training A Speech-to-Text Neural Network
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+Speech-To-Text Recurrent Neural Network (RNN)
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+### Displaying the Data
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+In order to check out the sample data from the dataset and confirm its topology, I added a few arguments to the main function.
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+We can run the Python script with the `display` argument to get a sample output of our original data. This includes all the features like transcription, the raw samples and its shape, sample rate, duration, speaker ID, and more.
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+I also added a few optional flags for confirming the original data visually and audibly.
+- `--waveform` will show a graph of the waveform, using Matplotlib
+- `--spectrogram` will show a graph of the spectrogram (given by STFTs not MFCCs), using Librosa
+- `--mfcc` will show a graph of the spectrogram (MFCCs), using Librosa
+- `--play` will play the audio file
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+After running this, we now have our preprocessed data! We've transformed the dataset into usable MFCC data stored alongside the extracted features in persistent storage that's performant.
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+Using the `read-mfcc` argument in the Python script, I can confirm that the processed data has been stored properly and is readable by our model in a topology that is useful.
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+## Architecture
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+Input shape
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+Layers
+- GRU Layer
+- GRU Layer
+- Dense Layer
+- Dropout Layer (to prevent overfitting)
+- Dense Layer (softmax output)
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+Output shape
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