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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

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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.

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

#32
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?

This is my question too. I looked at Snips but they had no timeline on Windows support and were more interested in talking about their crypto coin than answering basic questions about their software.

We do support Windows!

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

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This is my question too. I looked at Snips but they had no timeline on Windows support and were more interested in talking about their crypto coin than answering basic questions about their software.

I had pretty good luck reaching out to the developers on Discord these past couple weeks. Not sure when you tried but I recommend trying it again. I personally I think snips is way more appropriate on something embedded like a RPi. I was up and running with their new sam package within minutes. Their new update (about two months?) really made it more user friendly. Unfortunately, their windows packages is still very…

BTW, Picovocie runs on RPi (all variant not only RPi3).

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

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> 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 ?

Stay tuned. We will add two more repositories (1) speech-to-intent (2) speech-to-text

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

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I had pretty good luck reaching out to the developers on Discord these past couple weeks. Not sure when you tried but I recommend trying it again. I personally I think snips is way more appropriate on something embedded like a RPi. I was up and running with their new sam package within minutes. Their new update (about two months?) really made it more user friendly. Unfortunately, their windows packages is still very…

BTW, Picovocie runs on RPi (all variant not only RPi3).

I'm currently running snips on a RPi 2 (Model B) and it's working so far so good! Not too sure about the original Rpi though. I'm debating on getting a RPi 3 to see if the performance is better.

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

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BTW, Picovocie runs on RPi (all variant not only RPi3).

I'm currently running snips on a RPi 2 (Model B) and it's working so far so good! Not too sure about the original Rpi though. I'm debating on getting a RPi 3 to see if the performance is better.

RPi3 is definitely faster. We also run on RPi 1/zero/etc.

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

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BTW, Picovocie runs on RPi (all variant not only RPi3).

I'm currently running snips on a RPi 2 (Model B) and it's working so far so good! Not too sure about the original Rpi though. I'm debating on getting a RPi 3 to see if the performance is better.

What sort of CPU usage do you see? Picovoice claims 25% (on RPi3).

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

#39
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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 am the founder of Picovoice. I am NOT going to comment on comparison as obviously I will be biased ;) With Picovoice you can use the voice control engine to accomplish this. Maybe something similar to this demo? https://picovoice.ai/#voice-control-demo The cool thing about this engine is that it is tiny. It uses less than 8% CPU on RPi3 and altogether it is less than 2MB (code, model, etc). Technically you can run…

Your website says:

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

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

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post #19

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I am the founder of Picovoice. I am NOT going to comment on comparison as obviously I will be biased ;) With Picovoice you can use the voice control engine to accomplish this. Maybe something similar to this demo? https://picovoice.ai/#voice-control-demo The cool thing about this engine is that it is tiny. It uses less than 8% CPU on RPi3 and altogether it is less than 2MB (code, model, etc). Technically you can run…

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

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