Category: AI

In October 2016, Google Speech-to-Text cost $0.006 for 15 minutes (see post here). Now, 22 months later, it costs the same for 60 minutes (see here). So the cost is roughly halving every year.

I’ve been working on a project requiring latitude and longitude for locations. We used the twofishes API. If you want to use it, my colleague Andrew Blaney has made it available as a Docker image – it’s andrewblaney/twofishes The API is originally by Foursquare. Here is why we created our own image. Enjoy!

Using machine learning for translation, transcription and other language capabilities is very powerful. What open source options are there? Here are just a few: OpenNMT supports translation and summarisation. Moses translation supports English, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Swedish and Finnish. Apertium is a free/open-source machine translation platform, initially aimed at related-language pairs but expanded to deal…… Continue reading Machine learning translation and transcription: open source options