Open sourcing wav2letter++, the fastest state-of-the-art speech system, and flashlight, an ML library going native

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This post introduces a new fully convolutional approach to automatic speech recognition and open-sources wav2letter++, the fastest state-of-the-art end-to-end speech recognition system. It also introduces flashlight, a fast, flexible standalone machine learning library with just-in-time compilation for CPU and GPU backends. The wav2letter++ toolkit is built on flashlight. This enables reproducible research and fast iteration for speech recognition tasks.