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Picovoice – Embed private voice AI into any product instantly

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

#2
> Picovoice is a team of applied scientists and engineers who strive to build a future where our lives are enhanced with ambient voice AIs, while respecting your privacy.

Oh wow, thank you!

I also saw a reference that this is all open-source but https://github.com/Picovoice/ does not have a Picovoice repository. Is it https://github.com/Picovoice/Porcupine?

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

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post #2

> Picovoice is a team of applied scientists and engineers who strive to build a future where our lives are enhanced with ambient voice AIs, while respecting your privacy. Oh wow, thank you! I also saw a reference that this is all open-source but https://github.com/Picovoice/ does not have a Picovoice repository. Is it https://github.com/Picovoice/Porcupine ?

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.

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

#4
Link to the github repo: https://github.com/picovoice/porcupine

The keyword generating application: https://github.com/Picovoice/Porcupine/tree/master/tools/opt...

The keyword generating application is free for personal use only and requires a license for commercial use, but there's no pricing available and it only provides an email address for contacting about purchasing a license.

If anyone from the team is reading this, the information above should be front and center on the landing page. I would guess that 99% of your site visitors are going to bounce on your landing page because the relevant information is buried so deeply.

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

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post #2

> Picovoice is a team of applied scientists and engineers who strive to build a future where our lives are enhanced with ambient voice AIs, while respecting your privacy. Oh wow, thank you! I also saw a reference that this is all open-source but https://github.com/Picovoice/ does not have a Picovoice repository. Is it https://github.com/Picovoice/Porcupine ?

The open source reference is this phrase: "Picovoice's speech to text repository ranks among top 10 open source machine learning projects."

It's apparently only talking about their benchmarking tool: https://github.com/Picovoice/stt-benchmark

The engine itself is called Cheetah, and appears to be a closed source, "inquire for pricing/licensing" product.

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

#10

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 agree, never heard of picovoice
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