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

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Post by edoceo »

kenarsa wrote: post #27
RussianCow wrote: post #24

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…

Braina has pricing, after a few clicks.

Mycroft is all FOSS

Kitt seems all FOSS too

Snips has a big CTA to 'Contact Enterprise Team'

It's clear you're trying to discover the right price and of course it's complex. Please be upfront about it, what you've said here could be copy-pasta to your site already.

I've been watching Pico for a while, it's very interesting but I'm feeling like you keep teasing more FOSS and being unclear on costs.

I want to like your project too but currently the others are doing a bit better on presentation.

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

#52

Post by gpm »

kenarsa wrote: post #31
roel_v wrote: post #6

Can I use this for my home automation setup? It seems the github link is only part of the product. Do you license this for individual users?

You can use this for free under Apache 2 license for a personal non-commercial use. No licensing needed. You don't need to pay us a penny as long as you don't make money off it.

The Apache 2 license allows for non-personal and commercial use...

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

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Post by kingosticks »

kenarsa wrote: post #40
kingosticks wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your website says: > Runs in real-time with only 5.6 MB of memory and 25% CPU usage on a Raspberry Pi 3.

For speech-to-text right? I provided the quote for voice control engine: https://picovoice.ai/#wake-word-detection The voice control comes in two variations standard and tiny. The tiny one consumes even fewer resources. I provided metrics for the standard one. You can check the benchmark repo on benchmark it yourself as well :) https://github.com/Picovoice/wakeword-benchmark

Yep! I see the difference now. I'll give this a try. Thanks.

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

#54

Post by kenarsa »

kingosticks wrote: post #53
kenarsa wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For speech-to-text right? I provided the quote for voice control engine: https://picovoice.ai/#wake-word-detection The voice control comes in two variations standard and tiny. The tiny one consumes even fewer resources. I provided metrics for the standard one. You can check the benchmark repo on benchmark it yourself as well :) https://github.com/Picovoice/wakeword-benchmark

Yep! I see the difference now. I'll give this a try. Thanks.

you are welcome!

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

#55

Post by stevenicr »

kenarsa wrote: post #27
RussianCow wrote: post #24

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…

I see it may be a bit more complex than I had intially thought. Might I suggest a pricing table kind of thing showing some basic plans and usage and price points?

Something as simple as a few basic use cases, android app, no engineering support, under 10,000 unite, x price for example maybe.

I'm a small developer and tinkerer, so my choice to explore more on not is really price sensitive. However I do also consult with other groups, and may suggest your product as a fit if it meets other criteria I look for "private voice AI" - you've already checked a few boxes!

However, any time I see a "contact us for price inquiries" - I shut down. I know if they can't tell me the price on the page I can't afford it. At that point I don't bookmark the site, I don't research any further, and it reinforces the awesomeness of other projects I've put into my memory for use.

This is not just you, it's a lot of projects/ site on the web.

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

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Post by kenarsa »

natvert wrote: post #30

Is this not just https://github.com/ARM-software/ML-KWS-for-MCU trained on new keywords? Maybe I'm missing what is so special here?

the project you mentioned is wake-word for ARM only. Great project, BTW. For wake word, we provide on-demand model generation. We do also more than wake word. Finally, we can run on other CPUs/OSs as well.

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

#57

Post by kenarsa »

edoceo wrote: post #51
kenarsa wrote: 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…

Braina has pricing, after a few clicks. Mycroft is all FOSS Kitt seems all FOSS too Snips has a big CTA to 'Contact Enterprise Team' It's clear you're trying to discover the right price and of course it's complex. Please be upfront about it, what you've said here could be copy-pasta to your site already. I've been watching Pico for a while, it's very interesting but I'm feeling like you keep teasing more FOSS and bei…

Thanks for the feedback :) Hopefully, we find a way to make you like our project!

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

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Post by sctb »

frontier87 wrote: post #50
syntaxing wrote: post #9

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!

So you said in your only other comment. Hacker News is a community site and it's not just to promote something, so could you please participate community-style instead?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

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

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Post by kingosticks »

kenarsa wrote: post #54
kingosticks wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep! I see the difference now. I'll give this a try. Thanks.

you are welcome!

So I had a quick poke around on the wake word github repo but it looks like you cant generate custom keywords for the raspberry pi. Is that correct? So you have to use the pre-built ones in the resources directory? There seem to be a lot files in there but how do I know what each one does?

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

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Post by bmc7505 »

kenarsa wrote: post #47
bmc7505 wrote: 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.

Awesome! I look forward to trying out the speech-to-intent and speech-to-text products. Will these also be Apache 2.0 licensed?
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