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And I do invite you to try out our voice platform, running 100% on-device on Raspberry Pi 3 or equivalent (and soon MCUs). We're on par with Amazon, Google et a

And I do invite you to try out our voice platform, running 100% on-device on Raspberry Pi 3 or equivalent (and soon MCUs). We're on par with Amazon, Google et al. in terms of performance: - https://makers.snips.ai/ https://makers.snips.ai/ - https://github.com/snipsco/snips-nlu https://github.com/snipsco/snips-nlu - https://medium.com/snips-ai/snips-nlu-is-an-open-source-private-by-design-alternative-to-dialogflow-amazon-lex-and-other-nlu-a95dbe16f4a1 https://medium.com/snips-ai/snips-nlu-is-an-open-source-priv...

api 8y ago
This demonstrates nicely that the "we need the cloud to do good voice analytics" argument is baloney. Local voice recognition is perfectly do-able, especially on today's hardware with today's cheap storage. They need the cloud to do bulk surveillance.
StavrosK 8y ago
Oh I know, I've tried it and that's why I like what you guys have been doing. The missing piece of the puzzle is a decent hardware kit, but putting a blockchain on any of this is completely unnecessary.
- mfester 8y ago
  Totally agree that we need decent, open hardware, and that's why we're set on building it :) This will take some time, but in the mean time, we've launched a "Maker Kit" (https://makers.snips.ai/kit/ https://makers.snips.ai/kit/) so that everyone can get started building voice assistants for their home that don't listen in. The blockchain is a key ingredient in what we are trying to build, that is, 100% private AI assistants. We will detail this in our upcoming white paper.
  - StavrosK 8y ago
    Oh I'm sure that a blockchain is a key ingredient, I'm just not sure why your blockchain is a key ingredient. There are thousands of other coins you can use here instead of fragmenting the space even more and spending development effort on yet another blockchain. I know that the goal of your blockchain is "cash in on that sweet sweet ICO hype", I just wish you either didn't or that you were more upfront about it.

api 8y ago

This demonstrates nicely that the "we need the cloud to do good voice analytics" argument is baloney. Local voice recognition is perfectly do-able, especially on today's hardware with today's cheap storage. They need the cloud to do bulk surveillance.

StavrosK 8y ago

Oh I know, I've tried it and that's why I like what you guys have been doing. The missing piece of the puzzle is a decent hardware kit, but putting a blockchain on any of this is completely unnecessary.

mfester 8y ago
Totally agree that we need decent, open hardware, and that's why we're set on building it :) This will take some time, but in the mean time, we've launched a "Maker Kit" (https://makers.snips.ai/kit/ https://makers.snips.ai/kit/) so that everyone can get started building voice assistants for their home that don't listen in. The blockchain is a key ingredient in what we are trying to build, that is, 100% private AI assistants. We will detail this in our upcoming white paper.
- StavrosK 8y ago
  Oh I'm sure that a blockchain is a key ingredient, I'm just not sure why your blockchain is a key ingredient. There are thousands of other coins you can use here instead of fragmenting the space even more and spending development effort on yet another blockchain. I know that the goal of your blockchain is "cash in on that sweet sweet ICO hype", I just wish you either didn't or that you were more upfront about it.