title: Julia for image processing and speech recognition
body: <p>I recently stumbled upon <a href="http://julialang.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Julia Language</a> and I was surprised to see their claims. It claims to be many folds faster than languages like Python, which I'm currently using for machine learning algorithms on speech recogniton. 
  Their claim for example Fibonacci sequence is about 30 times faster than in Python. </p>
  
  <p>I dont understand what is that it makes it so much faster. However what I really want to know is whether someone has actually verified this. If that is the case I would move from Python to Julia Language for the speech recognizer I am building as I am hitting the slow threshold of my response and cannot afford to make it anymore slower. 
  Also are there any projects on github(or anywhere) where I can find Julia projects which do heavy number crunching like image processing, speech recognition etc.
  I searched upon some other link such as <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19208014/is-the-julia-language-really-as-fast-as-it-claims">this one</a>  , but could not decide effectively. I can run the programs and verify their claims, but if someone has already done so, it would be helpful to me.</p>