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Voice control engine that runs fully in the browser using WebAssembly

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Re: Voice control engine that runs fully in the browser using WebAssembly

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Each of the >30 times I've hit F5 on this site in Chromium it causes a 100% reproducible, complete tab crash.

The tab fully loads and appears properly for about... 100ms or so beforehand, so I'm pretty sure it's to do with some kind of wasm interaction. I have my microphone set to "ask before accessing" so I don't think the crash is to do with audio.

FWIW, I've been experiencing periodic tab crashes for the past few weeks, and need to do a package upgrade to move up from 68.0, so this may not be interesting to anybody.

But in case someone sees this and wants to chase it down, let me know; debugging Chromium can be fun. Unfortunately Arch doesn't provide debug symbols for their builds :'( so that's a bit of a setback, but yeah.

Re: Voice control engine that runs fully in the browser using WebAssembly

#6
Interesting tech, but on a very restricted demo it was wrong a huge number of times for me.

I'd recommend adding a note that the lamp itself will go red in response to "ok lamp", at least I think that's why it was doing that - it was a bit confusing and to see the first thing happen after saying "ok lamp, blue" having the picture of a lamp go red was not hugely encouraging initially. Perhaps add "listening for colour" or something.

Re: Voice control engine that runs fully in the browser using WebAssembly

#10
post #9

If you are interested in a voice engine which will be open-sourced soon and works on Raspberry Pi 3, iOS, Android, osX and Linux, you can take a look at what we are building at Snips https://snips.ai

A bare minimum for advertising your project in this discussion would be a friendly comparison.

All you've done here is spam the discussion, like you always do.

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