How to make speech recognition in python faster?

Question

I'm currently working on a "smart" assistant project in Python3 on my Raspberry Pi 3 B+.
The only problem is that the "speech_recognition" is very slow (maybe 4 or 5 seconds). I want to lower the time it takes to process.

I have looked into the Google Cloud API and IBM, but they are obviously not free. How fast is pocketphinx on a Raspberry Pi? Is there another way to speed this up?

Answer 1

Use Speech Recognition Python package. That comes with lot of Options for Speech Recognition. even Google Speech recognition can be used Freely or try to use The Open Source Speech Recognition DeepSpeech from Mozilla.