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I'm a co-founder of Snips https://snips.ai https://snips.ai, we are building a 100% on-device Voice AI platform which protects your privacy as it does not rely

by oulipo 9y ago

I'm a co-founder of Snips https://snips.ai https://snips.ai, we are building a 100% on-device Voice AI platform which protects your privacy as it does not rely on sending voice on servers like Google and Apple do You can use the platform for free (we will also open-source over time), it can run on Raspberry 3 and we added an integration with the amazing Home Assistant: https://home-assistant.io/components/snips https://home-assistant.io/components/snips

googlryas 9y ago
Can you recommend a far field microphone for use with your project? Or really one as good as or better than those in the echo dot would be amazing, because that is what my baseline is right now.
- oulipo 9y ago
  We are using a ReSpeaker, and we made a blog post to benchmark some microphones at https://medium.com/snips-ai/benchmarking-microphone-arrays-respeaker-conexant-microsemi-acuedge-matrix-creator-minidsp-950de8876fda https://medium.com/snips-ai/benchmarking-microphone-arrays-r...
halflings 9y ago
> which protects your privacy as it does not rely on sending voice on servers like Google and Apple do And on your website: > The First On-Device Voice Platform Android already has on-device voice recognition. Just try getting in airplane mode and saying "OK Google, play music" or something that does not require being online.
- detaro 9y ago
  Can apps/services hook into that?
- Drdrdrq 9y ago
  Sure, but the Google platform is still in the cloud.
- oulipo 9y ago
  Yes, but their business model is still to get and sell your data to advertiser We do a 100% on-device platform, where your data never leaves the platform, and we want to power the next generation of private-by-design smart IoT devices
  - danellis 9y ago
    Sigh How many times do we have to do this? Google isn't selling your data to advertisers.
    - nopzor 9y ago
      How many times do we have to do what? Google is absolutely selling your data to advertisers. If you mean they won't sell it to them in raw form I guess you're technically correct, and I'd of course agree with you, but I don't think this is the parent posters point. They aren't being altruistic by not doing this; if they did they wouldn't be able to monetize it anymore. Am I misunderstanding something here or are you just being pedantic? It's the same reason I'm an iPhone user. I'd rather deal with a company whose business model is to sell me overpriced hardware rather than to "sell my data to advertisers"
      - libertyEQ 9y ago
        I just watched an interview with Trump where the interviewer asked about the possibility of regulating tech and specifically mentioned all the info these large tech companies are gathering and "selling" our data. While it may be considered pedantic, I think the nuance is important. Fake news often has a kernel of truth in it and being sloppy about the facts has implications. Here on HN, we know the specifics, but FOX viewers don't (for the most part).
CommanderData 9y ago
Thank you. What is the accuracy of recognition? Does accuracy improve overtime, if so how?
- oulipo 9y ago
  The accuracy is actually very good, and will improve a lot with the new models in the next release you can test them for yourself by downloading the platform which is free!
dchuk 9y ago
How are you able to improve the training over time if you aren't centralizing the data anywhere?
- oh_sigh 9y ago
  Allow people to explicitly opt in to send training data to them, or otherwise generate their own training data through volunteers.
- oulipo 9y ago
  We have many methods, but mostly voice and text can be trained offline and we refine it online with methods that can train on the device
BitNoGo 9y ago
Z Wave is supported but is zigbee? Zigbee hardware tend to be quite a bitcheaper and have has a wider range of devices.
- bigjimmyk3 9y ago
  I'm controlling zigbee devices with hass via a lightify hub, and I know there are other supported methods as well. EDIT: clarified that I am using homeassistant to talk to the lightify hub.
daveguy 9y ago
> (we will also open-source over time) What portion of it is currently open source?
- oulipo 9y ago
  We have a few open-source repositories now, but we will start open-sourcing more during next year
oulipo 9y ago
This is a blog post on how to integrate Snips with Home Assistant to build your own 100% on-device Voice AI for home automation https://medium.com/snips-ai/integrating-snips-with-home-assistant-314723645c77 https://medium.com/snips-ai/integrating-snips-with-home-assi... This is a blog post on how to create your own custom assistants https://medium.com/snips-ai/build-a-weather-assistant-with-snips-4253541f1684 https://medium.com/snips-ai/build-a-weather-assistant-with-s...
rumdz 9y ago
You guys are even using Rust for some of your projects on Github [0]. Yay :). [0]: https://github.com/snipsco https://github.com/snipsco
- oulipo 9y ago
  We love Rust :)
bedros 9y ago
thank you for your work on this, I was thinking last week of nice to have assistant like echo or google, but I don't trust either company
- oulipo 9y ago
  Thank you :)
jeena 9y ago
> (we will also open-source over time) One tip is to use GPLv3, which would force the users of your code, who would put the software on their hardware, to make it possible for their users to reflash the devices. For everyone who doesn't want to allow that you could offer a commercial license. This way of open sourcing works quite well for example for the Qt Company, they sell commercial licenses to automobile companies which don't want people to reflash their in vehicle infotainment systems for some reason, so they pay a per device commercial license. The Qt Company takes the money and pays developers to keep on working on the free software version of Qt which is GPLv3. Kind of win win for everyone, small users who play with the sofware on their raspberry pi get the source code and big companies with their own propriatary hardware would pay licenses.

by oulipo 9y ago

googlryas 9y ago

Can you recommend a far field microphone for use with your project? Or really one as good as or better than those in the echo dot would be amazing, because that is what my baseline is right now.

oulipo 9y ago
We are using a ReSpeaker, and we made a blog post to benchmark some microphones at https://medium.com/snips-ai/benchmarking-microphone-arrays-respeaker-conexant-microsemi-acuedge-matrix-creator-minidsp-950de8876fda https://medium.com/snips-ai/benchmarking-microphone-arrays-r...

halflings 9y ago

> which protects your privacy as it does not rely on sending voice on servers like Google and Apple do And on your website: > The First On-Device Voice Platform Android already has on-device voice recognition. Just try getting in airplane mode and saying "OK Google, play music" or something that does not require being online.

detaro 9y ago
Can apps/services hook into that?
Drdrdrq 9y ago
Sure, but the Google platform is still in the cloud.
oulipo 9y ago
Yes, but their business model is still to get and sell your data to advertiser We do a 100% on-device platform, where your data never leaves the platform, and we want to power the next generation of private-by-design smart IoT devices
- danellis 9y ago
  Sigh How many times do we have to do this? Google isn't selling your data to advertisers.
  - nopzor 9y ago
    How many times do we have to do what? Google is absolutely selling your data to advertisers. If you mean they won't sell it to them in raw form I guess you're technically correct, and I'd of course agree with you, but I don't think this is the parent posters point. They aren't being altruistic by not doing this; if they did they wouldn't be able to monetize it anymore. Am I misunderstanding something here or are you just being pedantic? It's the same reason I'm an iPhone user. I'd rather deal with a company whose business model is to sell me overpriced hardware rather than to "sell my data to advertisers"
    - libertyEQ 9y ago
      I just watched an interview with Trump where the interviewer asked about the possibility of regulating tech and specifically mentioned all the info these large tech companies are gathering and "selling" our data. While it may be considered pedantic, I think the nuance is important. Fake news often has a kernel of truth in it and being sloppy about the facts has implications. Here on HN, we know the specifics, but FOX viewers don't (for the most part).

CommanderData 9y ago

Thank you. What is the accuracy of recognition? Does accuracy improve overtime, if so how?

oulipo 9y ago
The accuracy is actually very good, and will improve a lot with the new models in the next release you can test them for yourself by downloading the platform which is free!

dchuk 9y ago

How are you able to improve the training over time if you aren't centralizing the data anywhere?

oh_sigh 9y ago
Allow people to explicitly opt in to send training data to them, or otherwise generate their own training data through volunteers.
oulipo 9y ago
We have many methods, but mostly voice and text can be trained offline and we refine it online with methods that can train on the device

BitNoGo 9y ago

Z Wave is supported but is zigbee? Zigbee hardware tend to be quite a bitcheaper and have has a wider range of devices.

bigjimmyk3 9y ago
I'm controlling zigbee devices with hass via a lightify hub, and I know there are other supported methods as well. EDIT: clarified that I am using homeassistant to talk to the lightify hub.

daveguy 9y ago

> (we will also open-source over time) What portion of it is currently open source?

oulipo 9y ago
We have a few open-source repositories now, but we will start open-sourcing more during next year

oulipo 9y ago

This is a blog post on how to integrate Snips with Home Assistant to build your own 100% on-device Voice AI for home automation https://medium.com/snips-ai/integrating-snips-with-home-assistant-314723645c77 https://medium.com/snips-ai/integrating-snips-with-home-assi... This is a blog post on how to create your own custom assistants https://medium.com/snips-ai/build-a-weather-assistant-with-snips-4253541f1684 https://medium.com/snips-ai/build-a-weather-assistant-with-s...

rumdz 9y ago

You guys are even using Rust for some of your projects on Github [0]. Yay :). [0]: https://github.com/snipsco https://github.com/snipsco

oulipo 9y ago
We love Rust :)

bedros 9y ago

thank you for your work on this, I was thinking last week of nice to have assistant like echo or google, but I don't trust either company

oulipo 9y ago
Thank you :)

jeena 9y ago

> (we will also open-source over time) One tip is to use GPLv3, which would force the users of your code, who would put the software on their hardware, to make it possible for their users to reflash the devices. For everyone who doesn't want to allow that you could offer a commercial license. This way of open sourcing works quite well for example for the Qt Company, they sell commercial licenses to automobile companies which don't want people to reflash their in vehicle infotainment systems for some reason, so they pay a per device commercial license. The Qt Company takes the money and pays developers to keep on working on the free software version of Qt which is GPLv3. Kind of win win for everyone, small users who play with the sofware on their raspberry pi get the source code and big companies with their own propriatary hardware would pay licenses.