srvk/eesen

• highreadme#1

  Reposition README's opening to clearly state Eesen's core purpose and differentiators

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  ### Eesen
  
  **Eesen** is to simplify the existing complicated, expertise-intensive ASR pipeline into a straightforward sequence learning problem. Acoustic modeling in Eesen involves training a single recurrent neural network (RNN) to model the mapping from speech to text. Eesen abandons the following elements required by the existing ASR pipeline: * Hidden Markov models (HMMs) * Gaussian mixture models (GMMs) * Decision trees and phonetic questions * Dictionary, if characters are used as the modeling units...

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  ### Eesen
  
  **Eesen** is an open-source toolkit for building end-to-end Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems. It simplifies the traditional ASR pipeline by training a single recurrent neural network (RNN) with Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) as the objective, explicitly abandoning Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) and Gaussian Mixture Models (GMMs). This approach transforms the complex ASR problem into a straightforward sequence learning task.

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• mediumreadme#2

  Add a 'Key Features' section to the README

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  ### Key Features
  
  *   **End-to-End ASR:** Simplifies the pipeline by directly mapping speech to text.
  *   **HMM/GMM-Free:** Eliminates traditional Hidden Markov Models and Gaussian Mixture Models.
  *   **RNNs with CTC:** Utilizes Bi-directional RNNs with LSTM units and Connectionist Temporal Classification for training.
  *   **Flexible Decoding:** Supports both WFST-based and RNN-LM based decoding.
  *   **GPU Accelerated:** Optimized for speed with GPU implementations for LSTM and CTC training, including TensorFlow support.

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• lowreadme#3

  Add a brief statement about project status or intended use to README

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  Eesen continues to serve as a valuable research toolkit for exploring simplified, end-to-end ASR architectures, with ongoing support for modern deep learning frameworks like TensorFlow.

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Category GEO backends resolved for this scan: google/gemini-2.5-flash, deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash

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  How to build an end-to-end speech recognition system without HMMs and GMMs?

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  Seeking an ASR framework that uses recurrent neural networks and CTC for training.

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