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24 alternatives to Classify mechanical faults using Contrastive Language-Audio Pretraining
Diagnose a car fault from its sound — an honest, end-to-end audio-ML pipeline (scrape → clean → CLAP → calibrated triage). Proof of concept. - adam-s/car-diagnosis
This tool uses contrastive language-audio pretraining to identify and classify mechanical faults. It analyzes audio recordings to detect equipment problems, making it useful for maintenance professionals and engineers… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Improving the way car crashes are reported in local media by using natural language processing to identify editorial anti-patterns that obscure the preventable nature of crashes.
2021 · visionzeroreporting.com · its alternatives →
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I built a voice agent from scratch that averages ~400ms end-to-end latency (phone stop → first syllable). That’s with full STT → LLM → TTS in the loop, clean barge-ins, and no precomputed responses. What moved the needle: Voice is a turn-taking problem, not a transcription problem. VAD alone fails; you need semantic end-of-turn detection. The system reduces to one loop: speaking vs listening. The two transitions - cancel instantly on barge-in, respond instantly on end-of-turn - define the experience. STT → LLM → TTS must stream. Sequential pipelines are dead on arrival for natural…
Mar 2026 · ntik.me · its alternatives →
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State-of-the-art (ranked #1 Aug 2022) German Speech Recognition in 284 lines of C++. This is a 100% private 100% offline 100% free CLI tool. - DeutscheKI/tevr-asr-tool
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Here is a tool I built initially for myself to help with my German and Greek language studies. It started as a hack for creating Anki cards from native language audio. It extracts the words, finds their base forms (lemmas) and groups the examples by the lemma. At some point I realised that I have a transcription with word level timestamps that opens a lot of other opportunities. So I added a mode to click the first and last word in the transcript and it starts looping with the right gap and repeat count. Another feature I use a lot is selecting an audio fragment, sending a predefined prompt…
Jun 2026 · lingochunk.com · its alternatives →
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Built this because tones are killing my spoken Mandarin and I can't reliably hear my own mistakes. It's a 9M Conformer-CTC model trained on ~300h (AISHELL + Primewords), quantized to INT8 (11 MB), runs 100% in-browser via ONNX Runtime Web. Grades per-syllable pronunciation + tones with Viterbi forced alignment. Try it here: https://simedw.com/projects/ear/
Jan 2026 · simedw.com · its alternatives →
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Optimize the audio quality of your loudspeakers. Contribute to erdewit/HiFiScan development by creating an account on GitHub.
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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AI to make spoken audio sound professional
2024 · podcast.adobe.com · its alternatives →
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Transcribe audio from your device microphone using 100% local / client-side processing.
2023 · ermine.ai · its alternatives →
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Open source audio annotation tool for humans. Contribute to midas-research/audino development by creating an account on GitHub.
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Our goal with this project is to build a completely open source, state of the art turn detection model that can be used in any voice AI application. I've been experimenting with LLM voice conversations since GPT-4 was first released. (There's a previous front page Show HN about Pipecat, the open source voice AI orchestration framework I work on. [1]) It's been almost two years, and for most of that time, I've been expecting that someone would "solve" turn detection. We all built initial, pretty good 80/20 versions of turn detection on top of VAD (voice activity detection) models. And…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Vehicle detection using machine learning and computer vision techniques for Udacity's Self-Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree. - tatsuyah/vehicle-detection
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN: I published part one of my free NLP course. The course is intended to help anyone who knows Python and a bit of math go from the very basics all the way to today's mainstream models and frameworks. I strive to balance theory and practice and so every module consists of detailed explanations and slides along with a Colab notebook (in most modules) putting the theory into practice. In part one, we cover text preprocessing, how to turn text into numbers, and multiple ways to classify and search text using "classical" approaches. And along the way, we'll pick up useful bits on how to use…
2022 · nlpdemystified.org · its alternatives →
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Link: https://www.nlpdemystified.org/ Hi HN: After a year of work, I've published my free NLP course. The course helps anyone who knows Python and a bit of math go from the basics to today's mainstream models and frameworks. I strive to balance theory and practice, so every module consists of detailed explanations and slides along with a Colab notebook putting the ideas into practice (in most modules). The notebooks cover how to accomplish everyday NLP tasks including extracting key information, document search, text similarity, text classification, finding topics in…
2022 · its alternatives →
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Omnilingual ASR▲132Advancing automatic speech recognition for 1,600+ languages
Nov 2025 · ai.meta.com · its alternatives →
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End-to-end Automatic Speech Recognition for Madarian and English in Tensorflow - GitHub - zzw922cn/Automatic_Speech_Recognition: End-to-end Automatic Speech Recognition for Madarian and English in Tensorflow
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I am excited to announce a new tool for music producers and audio enthusiasts - a music audio search engine. With just a simple description of the groove you're looking for, our semantic search engine will output the most similar audio in seconds. I used the Freesound.org API to upload over 3,000 grooves to MongoDB, and combined all the relevant data such as tags, title, description, BPM, etc. into OpenAI's Text-Davinci to generate a unique description of each sound. I then embedded these descriptions using the Ada Embeddings Model and inserted them into Pinecone DB vector database, making…
2023 · muzic-sage.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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Chromaprint/AcoustID audio fingerprinting for the JVM - mgdigital/Chromaprint.scala
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I’ve been working on an OCR pipeline specifically optimized for machine learning dataset preparation. It’s designed to process complex academic materials — including math formulas, tables, figures, and multilingual text — and output clean, structured formats like JSON and Markdown. Some features: • Multi-stage OCR combining DocLayout-YOLO, Google Vision, MathPix, and Gemini Pro Vision • Extracts and understands diagrams, tables, LaTeX-style math, and multilingual text (Japanese/Korean/English) • Highly tuned for ML training pipelines, including dataset generation and…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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In 2020, Magenta released DDSP [1], a machine learning algorithm / python library which made it possible to generate good sounding instrument synthesizers from about 6-10 minutes of data. While working with DDSP for a project, we realised how it was actually quite hard to find 6-10 minute of clean recordings of monophonic instruments. In this project, we have combined the DDSP architecture with a domain adaptation technique from speech synthesis [2]. This domain adaptation technique works by pre-training our model on many different recordings from the Solos dataset [3] first and then…
2022 · erlj.notion.site · its alternatives →
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Audio landmark fingerprinting as a Node Stream module - adblockradio/stream-audio-fingerprint
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Yescribe.ai▲194Convert audio and video to text with AI & free online
2024 · yescribe.ai · its alternatives →
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Get diagnoses for your car in seconds with AI
2023 · cardiagnosis.softr.app · its alternatives →
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