Vancouver interactive voice tech startup Picovoice announced this week that it is making its wake word models for Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant free for companies to license. Prior to Picovoice, enterprises seeking to build voice products had to choose between closed ecosystems with limited flexibility or creating and maintaining their own voice stack. Picovoice wants […]
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Picovoice Unveils Platform for Building Voice Assistants Without the Cloud
Following the launch of its real-time speech recognition engine that can run offline anywhere, Vancouver AI startup Picovoice has announced a new platform that lets you easily create and train your own voice models. Picovoice’s new web console supports training universal wake words and domain-specific natural language understanding (NLU) skills that run entirely offline—even on […]
Picovoice’s Speech Recognition Brings Cloud-level Accuracy to Edge Devices
Vancouver AI startup Picovoice announced today that they have developed the world’s first real-time speech recognition engine that can run offline anywhere. Voice user interfaces like Amazon Transcribe make it easy for developers to add speech-to-text capability to their applications thanks to cloud-based Speech recognition services. Despite the ubiquity of speech-enabled devices, processing speech in […]