dhdaines
Low technology solutions for real world problems. Mostly natural language related.
Funding Links: https://github.com/sponsors/dhdaines
- Name: David Huggins-Daines
- Location: Sainte-Adèle, Québec
- Kind: user
- Followers: 38
- Following: 18
- Total stars: 54
- Repositories count: 88
- Created at: 2022-11-15T11:54:51.575Z
- Updated at: 2025-05-19T22:02:43.783Z
- Last synced at: 2025-05-19T22:02:43.783Z
GitHub Sponsors Profile
Hello! I'm an independent researcher and consultant based in Sainte-Adèle, Québec. I'm probably best known as the originator (but I would not say "author") of the PocketSphinx speech recognizer, which for reasons I cannot fathom, is still widely used by a lot of people. To see what I'm working on lately, it's best to see my blog.
In general, I spend more time deleting than writing code. I have an overwhelming bias towards things that are small, simple, explicit, accessible and either well-documented or self-documenting, though I don't always live up to this ideal. Despite the ever-flowing stream of snark that I produce about it, I actually think that JavaScript and the modern browser is the closest we've ever gotten to a universal Lisp machine, and I'm focusing all of my efforts on this platform.
- Current Sponsors: 0
- Past Sponsors: 0
- Total Sponsors: 0
- Minimum Sponsorship: $1.00
Featured Works
cmusphinx/pocketsphinx
A small speech recognizer
Language: C - Stars: 4123cmusphinx/sphinxtrain
Acoustic model trainer for CMU Sphinx
Language: Roff - Stars: 184ReadAlongs/SoundSwallower
An even smaller speech recognizer / force aligner
Language: C - Stars: 33dhdaines/soundswallower-demo
Simple demo of client-side speech recognition
Language: TypeScript - Stars: 3dhdaines/alignment-demo
Demo of client-side text-to-audio alignment
Language: TypeScript - Stars: 1dhdaines/rustfst-g2p
Train finite-state grapheme-to-phoneme transducers
Language: Rust - Stars: 8