Not require kenlm at import of pyctcdecode

kensho-technologies / pyctcdecode

A fast and lightweight python-based CTC beam search decoder for speech recognition.

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Not require kenlm at import of pyctcdecode #39

Closed patrickvonplaten closed 2 years ago

patrickvonplaten commented 2 years ago

Currently:

import pyctcdecode

throws an error if kenlm is not installed because of the function linting. IMO, it would be better to just have a warning as it might have been intended originally.

Also for future language model implementations that might not rely on kenlm it might be better.