... like all the other speech recognition projects that you might want to compare the LOC against.

...which however don't clickbait by using LoC as a primary selling point.

I wouldn't call it clickbait.

Mozilla's DeepSpeech is so large that you can't really read it and understand it. This one is 10x less code while recognition quality is 75% better (lower relative word error rate).

So this one is small enough that you can read the source code if you want to, while DeepSpeech is not.

Good point – calling this clickbait might be too cynical.

From this perspective I can definitely get behind advertising the project with the LoC measurement. Subjectively, I still find this to be a bit of a "not telling the whole truth", however I also only ever toyed around with speech recognition ai.

You could have maybe said "284 lines of code plus weights" to avoid all this criticism that misses the point of the project.

That wouldn't have fit into the 80 character limit. I also wanted to mention that it's private and offline, but couldn't say it compact enough.