FireRedASR is an open-source industrial-grade automatic speech recognition (ASR) system supporting Mandarin, Chinese dialects, and English. It provides two model variants: FireRedASR-AED (Attention-based Encoder-Decoder with Conformer encoder and Transformer decoder) and FireRedASR-LLM (Encoder-Adapter-LLM framework leveraging Qwen2-7B). The codebase includes a CLI tool (`speech2text.py`), a Python API (`FireRedAsr`), feature extraction (fbank with CMVN), tokenization (mixed Chinese/English SentencePiece), and utilities for WER computation. It also includes a complete Triton Inference Server deployment with TensorRT-LLM acceleration for the AED model, with Docker support and benchmarking scripts. The architecture is modular: data preprocessing, model definitions, tokenizers, and inference orchestration are cleanly separated, though the model components are tightly coupled to the specific architectures. The repository is actively maintained with recent commits and demonstrates strong engineering craftsmanship in both the core ASR implementation and the production-grade deployment stack.
MockingBird is a Chinese voice cloning system implementing the SV2TTS (Speaker Verification to Text-to-Speech) framework. It provides a complete pipeline for few-shot voice cloning: a speaker encoder extracts d-vector embeddings from reference audio, a synthesizer (Tacotron with Global Style Tokens or VITS) converts text to mel-spectrograms conditioned on the speaker embedding, and a vocoder (HiFi-GAN, Fre-GAN, or WaveRNN) generates waveforms. It also includes a PPG-based voice conversion path using a Conformer-based PPG extractor and a PPG2Mel converter. The system supports multiple Chinese datasets (aidatatang_200zh, magicdata, aishell3, data_aishell) and provides web UIs (Streamlit/FastAPI), a PyQt5 toolbox, and CLI tools for training and inference. The codebase is a fork of Real-Time-Voice-Cloning adapted for Mandarin with significant additions including VITS synthesizer, multiple vocoder options, emotion extraction via wav2vec2, and a modern web API layer. While the original author has moved to a commercial product (noiz.ai), the repository shows recent commits (2026) and maintains a large community (36k stars).