French language support in Kaldi

Question

I am working on Kaldi but there is not info on its webpage about the language which it supports for conversion. Can I use Kaldi for French speech to text conversion.

I need to develop an offline French learning app. I tried PocketSphinx but the accuracy was very bad. Suggestion found was to train the model with your own data to improve it's accuracy. My assumption was that training a complete French language with it's grammer will be difficult and time taking.

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Answer 1

Kaldi itself is only an engine, so its distribution does not include any acoustic or language model. Given enough data (at least 100 hours) you can train your own model with the scripts provided by Kaldi. Alternatively, you can look at the list of pre-built models, but it looks like there is no French model among them.