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Re: Picovoice – Embed private voice AI into any product instantly

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I take it this is one of those "contact us for a quote" type of deals.

The reason the quote is not present is that there are just too many factors involved. What is the platform you are using (iOS, Android, ARM Cortex-M, DSP, etc)? What is the scale? Are you deploying to ten devices or ten million? Do you have specific runtime requirements? Some people have limited RAM (e.g. I only have 32KB of RAM), some limited CPU, some limited FLASH, etc. How many models do you need? Are there prope…

How easy would your tech adjust to recognising sound patterns, for example the idea I have would be an intelligent baby monitor that would identify the various noises a baby makes and alert you accordingly to the babies needs from food, nappy change, distress, pain, etc.

Would that type of stuff be viable with your technology?

Though would be a way of automated nappy changing, but an automated rattle or such toy triggered by the baby may well make some tasks less impacting and equally more engaging for the baby. Though identification of needs and with that recognition via audio would be the start.

Re: Picovoice – Embed private voice AI into any product instantly

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post #42
post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The reason the quote is not present is that there are just too many factors involved. What is the platform you are using (iOS, Android, ARM Cortex-M, DSP, etc)? What is the scale? Are you deploying to ten devices or ten million? Do you have specific runtime requirements? Some people have limited RAM (e.g. I only have 32KB of RAM), some limited CPU, some limited FLASH, etc. How many models do you need? Are there prope…

How easy would your tech adjust to recognising sound patterns, for example the idea I have would be an intelligent baby monitor that would identify the various noises a baby makes and alert you accordingly to the babies needs from food, nappy change, distress, pain, etc. Would that type of stuff be viable with your technology? Though would be a way of automated nappy changing, but an automated rattle or such toy trig…

"I've soiled myself... how embarrassing!"

https://simpsonswiki.com/wiki/Baby_translator

Re: Picovoice – Embed private voice AI into any product instantly

#45

Doesn't work on Android chrome.

The demo is using WebAssembly which is supported by Chrome. It also uses Web Audio API which I believe is again supported by Chrome. I just used the demo on my Android phone using Chrome. I wonder what could be a problem. It the mic on? :) If yes, maybe provide me the version of chrome you are using. I will look into it.

Re: Picovoice – Embed private voice AI into any product instantly

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post #43

This seems really neat, but my main, blocking issue is that there is absolutely no way to add pronunciation for a wake word. Therefore, if the developers have not explicitly added the word to their vocabulary, you are completely out of luck.

If you have a commercial application we can build you the model for any wake word. Since this requires some engineering work on our side we can only offer it to commercial customers at this point.

Re: Picovoice – Embed private voice AI into any product instantly

#47
post #37

It would be nice to support a grammar, a la CMUSphinx: https://cmusphinx.github.io/wiki/tutoriallm/#grammars

Agreed. The reason for not supporting grammar in this product is that we want to keep it extremely lightweight. We do have upcoming products that support grammar as well.

Re: Picovoice – Embed private voice AI into any product instantly

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post #42
post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The reason the quote is not present is that there are just too many factors involved. What is the platform you are using (iOS, Android, ARM Cortex-M, DSP, etc)? What is the scale? Are you deploying to ten devices or ten million? Do you have specific runtime requirements? Some people have limited RAM (e.g. I only have 32KB of RAM), some limited CPU, some limited FLASH, etc. How many models do you need? Are there prope…

How easy would your tech adjust to recognising sound patterns, for example the idea I have would be an intelligent baby monitor that would identify the various noises a baby makes and alert you accordingly to the babies needs from food, nappy change, distress, pain, etc. Would that type of stuff be viable with your technology? Though would be a way of automated nappy changing, but an automated rattle or such toy trig…

Sound classification is in our roadmap in 2019.

Re: Picovoice – Embed private voice AI into any product instantly

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post #15

The demo is pretty cool - the thing I liked best was this line: "You can turn off your internet connection and it will keep working." That's nice!

It is true! Have you tried it? :) We will add another demo for speech-to-intent module fairly soon (over this weekend). Stay tuned!

Not yet - my work computer doesn't like being cut off from the world due to financial apps that I run, but I'll try when I'm home this weekend.

Re: Picovoice – Embed private voice AI into any product instantly

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I wonder how this compares to snips[1]. I recently connected snips to my lights and it works pretty flawlessly. Picovoice does look like its easier to integrate into an app though. [1] http://snips.ai/

I think whichever privacy centric voice assistant will come to market first will build an unstoppable first mover advantage. There are so many people just waiting for an alternative to the Googles/Amazons of the world.

Snips looks like a promising prospect!

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