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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 you

by anc84 8y ago

> 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/ https://github.com/Picovoice/ does not have a Picovoice repository. Is it https://github.com/Picovoice/Porcupine https://github.com/Picovoice/Porcupine?

xf86alsa 8y ago
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.
- kenarsa 8y ago
  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 with {"product": "espresso", "milk": "no", "sugar", "two", "# shots": "2"}. It is a tightly coupled domain-specific speech recognition and NLU. It is small (less than 3MB and 8% CPU usage on RPi3) and ideal for home automation, industrial application, service industry, etc. 2- Speech-to-Text: It is large vocabulary speech recognition software that runs locally. It will support all platforms currently being supported. It allows you to do large vocabulary transcription with high accuracy locally on an embedded platform.
  - fermuch 8y ago
    Are those two multi language? I can think of a lot of use cases for industrial IoT if they support Spanish and Portuguese
tyingq 8y ago
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 https://github.com/Picovoice/stt-benchmark The engine itself is called Cheetah, and appears to be a closed source, "inquire for pricing/licensing" product.
- kenarsa 8y ago
  We will open source Cheetah this year with a similar licensing model as Porcupine.
kenarsa 8y ago
Stay tuned. We will add two more repositories (1) speech-to-intent (2) speech-to-text

by anc84 8y ago

xf86alsa 8y ago

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.

kenarsa 8y ago
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 with {"product": "espresso", "milk": "no", "sugar", "two", "# shots": "2"}. It is a tightly coupled domain-specific speech recognition and NLU. It is small (less than 3MB and 8% CPU usage on RPi3) and ideal for home automation, industrial application, service industry, etc. 2- Speech-to-Text: It is large vocabulary speech recognition software that runs locally. It will support all platforms currently being supported. It allows you to do large vocabulary transcription with high accuracy locally on an embedded platform.
- fermuch 8y ago
  Are those two multi language? I can think of a lot of use cases for industrial IoT if they support Spanish and Portuguese

tyingq 8y ago

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 https://github.com/Picovoice/stt-benchmark The engine itself is called Cheetah, and appears to be a closed source, "inquire for pricing/licensing" product.

kenarsa 8y ago
We will open source Cheetah this year with a similar licensing model as Porcupine.

kenarsa 8y ago

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