Finally made it! It’s been a long ride, but the first real STT guide for kids’ voices on edge devices is here. Check it out on Gumroad if you're curious!

the link for the book mlvanguards.gumroad.com/l/fine-tunin... (it's free)

In less than 24 hours, we turned 5K messy files (from @kaggle.com) into a clean dataset of ~3.9K audio+transcription pairs.

Here’s how:
- Resample & filter (standardize to 16kHz, cut long/empty clips)
- Auto-transcribe with SpeechBrain (ran it on CPU — I'm GPU poor 😅)

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We're launching an ebook on 28th this week 😳

Regular speech-to-text tech struggles with kids’ voices since they’re higher-pitched and less predictable.

We worked on that by creating a smaller, more accurate model that works well with children’s speech, even in noisy or low-power settings.

The principles of an indexing pipeline:

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