Daniel Povey, the main developer of the widely used open-source speech recognition toolkit Kaldi, tweeted today that he is likely joining Chinese smartphone giant Xiaomi at its Beijing headquarters to work on a next generation "PyTorch-y Kaldi." I am very close to signing an agreement to work for Xiaomi in Beijing. Would leave before end of 2019, and would hire a small team there to work on next-gen PyTorch-y' Kaldi. Povey is a leader in voice recognition research, known for his contributions to speech recognition and language processing technologies. He and other researchers first created Kaldi as part of a Johns Hopkins University workshop in 2009.