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1.What is this repo or project? (You can reuse the repo description you used earlier because this section doesn’t have to be long.)
2.How does it work?
3.Who will use this repo or project?
4.What is the goal of this project?
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**PaddleSpeech** is an open-source toolkit on [PaddlePaddle](https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/Paddle) platform for a variety of critical tasks in speech and audio, with the state-of-art and influential models.
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### Features:
### 🔥 Hot Activities
- 2021.12.21~12.24
4 Days Live Courses: Depth interpretation of PaddleSpeech!
**Courses videos and related materials: https://aistudio.baidu.com/aistudio/education/group/info/25130**
### Features
Via the easy-to-use, efficient, flexible and scalable implementation, our vision is to empower both industrial application and academic research, including training, inference & testing modules, and deployment process. To be more specific, this toolkit features at:
- 📦 **Ease of Use**: low barriers to install, and [CLI](#quick-start) is available to quick-start your journey.
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- 🔬 *Integration of mainstream models and datasets*: the toolkit implements modules that participate in the whole pipeline of the speech tasks, and uses mainstream datasets like LibriSpeech, LJSpeech, AIShell, CSMSC, etc. See also [model list](#model-list) for more details.
- 🧩 *Cascaded models application*: as an extension of the typical traditional audio tasks, we combine the workflows of the aforementioned tasks with other fields like Natural language processing (NLP) and Computer Vision (CV).
### Recent Update:
### Recent Update
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2021.12.14: We would like to have an online courses to introduce basics and research of speech, as well as code practice with `paddlespeech`. Please pay attention to our [Calendar](https://www.paddlepaddle.org.cn/live).
2021.12.14: We would like to have an online courses to introduce basics and research of speech, as well as code practice with `paddlespeech`. Please pay attention to our [Calendar](https://www.paddlepaddle.org.cn/live).
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- Hip: We recommand you to install `paddlepaddle` from https://mirror.baidu.com/pypi/simple and install `paddlespeech` from https://pypi.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/simple.
## Easy: Get the Basic Function (Support Linux, Mac, and Windows)
- If you are newer to `PaddleSpeech` and want to experience it easily without your machine. We recommend you to use [AI Studio](https://aistudio.baidu.com/aistudio/index) to experience it. There is a step-by-step tutorial for `PaddleSpeech` and you can use the basic function of `PaddleSpeech` with a free machine.
- If you are newer to `PaddleSpeech` and want to experience it easily without your machine. We recommend you to use [AI Studio](https://aistudio.baidu.com/aistudio/index) to experience it. There is a step-by-step [tutorial](https://aistudio.baidu.com/aistudio/education/group/info/25130) for `PaddleSpeech`, and you can use the basic function of `PaddleSpeech` with a free machine.
- If you want to use the command line function of Paddlespeech, you need to complete the following steps to install `PaddleSpeech`. For more information about how to use the command line function, you can see the [cli](https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleSpeech/tree/develop/paddlespeech/cli).
### Install Conda
Conda is a management system of the environment. You can go to [minicoda](https://docs.conda.io/en/latest/miniconda.html) (select a version py>=3.7) to download and install the conda.
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> If you encounter problem with downloading **nltk_data** while using paddlespeech, it maybe due to your poor network, we suggest you download the [nltk_data](https://paddlespeech.bj.bcebos.com/Parakeet/tools/nltk_data.tar.gz) provided by us, and extract it to your `${HOME}`.
## Medium: Get the Major Functions (Support Linux)
If you want to get the major function of `paddlespeech`, you need to do following steps: