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posguy | 2 years ago

Mozilla didn't want to fund further development, most of the team ended up at Coqui.ai

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user_7832|2 years ago

Thanks, that's the one I was thinking about. I remembered it had an odd name.

rasz|2 years ago

Mozilla shut that project down same day (Apr 12, 2021) as: "Mozilla is partnering with NVIDIA, which is investing $1.5 million in Mozilla Common Voice,". Aka they got paid off by Nvidia to not compete.

yorwba|2 years ago

DeepSpeech is not competition for NVIDIA, quite the contrary. More people using DeepSpeech means more GPUs sold.

Seems more likely that Mozilla would have shut down both projects, but NVIDIA funding saved the more important one.