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They did post the code on github (https://github.com/Microsoft/CNTK) with the Microsoft open source license.

Presumably you could feed it speech from a running instance of gnu-radio.

CNTK is just a toolkit, like tensorflow or theano. Code for the paper was not published.

Let alone the datasets used to train, which are worth a lot of money.

Aussie company (Appen) provides the datasets :D

That's the one that seems to be using illegal GCHQ wiretaps ... see the (Dutch) article below about an Appen translator getting a private voicemail of her ex to translate.

http://www.volkskrant.nl/tech/privegesprekken-van-duizenden-...

No, it's GCHQ contracting Appen. They only deliver the platform for distributed outsourced transcription.

I guess it would come in https://www.cris.ai/

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