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

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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?

I suggest doing a quick read on one of the demos (Python for example) that should clear things up. If not you can always open an issue...

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

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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?

I suggest doing a quick read on one of the demos (Python for example) that should clear things up. If not you can always open an issue...

Yeh I think I understand now. The filename of each file in the resources folder represents the hot-word that's detected. When you specify multiple files it'll give the index corresponding to the file and hence the word that was detected. So the problem is that since you don't support generating your own hot-words for raspberry pi, you are stuck with the small random set of words in the repo. That's kind of a huge limitation. So while I'm sure this is a great project for use with x86 and mac, it's a non-starter for me. Presumably proper support for raspberry pi is coming at some point so I'll be sure to check back.

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

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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.

Why not make it possible for anyone to train it instead of you having to do engineering? Is that the profit model? If so, totally valid, but I'm wondering if I'm understanding this right.

two reasons:

1- the business model 2- in some cases, it actually needs some engineering. for example a new brand name, etc.

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

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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 wi…

This is really good feedback. Agreed. What I have seen work is to put common cases. It probably makes our life on Picovoice side easier as answering repeating price questions is not a fun day to spend our time. We will address this soon. I promise.

I think it will work better for ya. Certainly you've run across sites that show some small access for cheap, and more access for more money, and "requests over X calls / transaction / users, call for enterprise quote" kind of thing..

I assume these businesses are mainly looking for those high volume / high price clients and or people with that kind of money to buy them out completely.. all the while making a cheap plan for people to tinker with, build an MVP and maybe scale up.. and perhaps get enough mid range sales to prove they are worth something to others..

Of course that's not the game plan for every service out there. Anyhow good luck to ya, glad to see people working on ways to do things more privately one way or another.

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

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Just took a closer look at the examples and played around with some code. It works really well and a surprisingly low footprint. Basically doing exactly what is promised.

However i wonder why there is no way (visible?) to generate words for Javascript? Or at least a documentation on how the format for those byte arrays is build.

Assuming this is a licensing thing, i would really suggest to not put limit in that way. On first impression i assumed that this is useable for free for everything except commerical projects.

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

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Porcupine is just wake word detection, which in itself is very useful indeed. Not sure what the plans for open sourcing the rest of the components are though.

Hello. Thanks for the comment. We have plans to open source two more products this year. with similar licensing compared to Porcupine. 1- Speech-to-Intent: It allows you to issue complex voice commands in a specific domain and in turn returns the intent. For example, in the case of a coffee maker you can say "Please may I have a single shot espresso with no milk and two sugars". The engine returns a JSON-like object…

Are those two multi language? I can think of a lot of use cases for industrial IoT if they support Spanish and Portuguese

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

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Just took a closer look at the examples and played around with some code. It works really well and a surprisingly low footprint. Basically doing exactly what is promised. However i wonder why there is no way (visible?) to generate words for Javascript? Or at least a documentation on how the format for those byte arrays is build. Assuming this is a licensing thing, i would really suggest to not put limit in that way.…

Came here to say this.. Had a great idea for using this to help train pilots to do the RT (i'm doing my PPL now, and this would be perfect..) The lack of JS optimizer means i can't really hack on what, could have become a nice passive income site.
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