A short while ago, I spent a few weeks collecting and evaluating various implementations of speech analysis algorithms for my current work. TL;DR: the general quality of scientific software is bad, and needs to improve. Let me state up front that I am explicitly not talking about the quality of the science itself. This blog post is exclusively focused on the published software. In general, the problems were bad programming, old and unmaintained code, and lack of documentation. While none of t...
