ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

OpenFST

Hey there, so imagine you're playing with blocks and you want to build something cool but you have to follow some rules. Openfst is like a rulebook for building things with language, where every word is a block.

Openfst helps you to build and understand what's happening to the words in your sentence. It helps you to take a sentence and break it down into its individual words, kind of like taking your blocks apart. You can then arrange and rebuild the words to create new sentences that follow certain rules - just like using different blocks to build something new.

Openfst uses algorithms to do all of this, which are just fancy instructions that tell your computer what to do. It's a really helpful tool for people who work with language, like linguists or programmers who write speech recognition programs. So just like your rulebook for building blocks, openfst helps people build and manipulate language-based systems.