node-pre-gyp VS snowboy

The problem is that it determines the the system's platform and architecture using the binary compiling package node-pre-gyp and this very savior of a Github issue details how node-pre-gyp is not handling ARM architecture detection properly and basically mixing everything up. Because it's not detecting properly, even if we build our own binding with --build-from-source when installing, it still won't work because it is compiling the wrong binding file for the wrong architecture. To make matters worse, if we don't use --build-from-source, it just simply fetches the Intel precompiled binding file. napi-v6-darwin-unknown-x64

Indeed, Snowboy uses node-pre-gyp which helps to publish and install Node.js C++ addons from binaries. So when a new Node.js version is shipped, node-pre-gyp must update its listing of the supported targets by specifying the:

Node is like 95% OK with ARM chips, so you might have a tricky dependency. Every time I had problems it was related to something depending on node-pre-gyp, there is an issue about it .

Great question. This is technically referred to as "Wake Word Detection". You run a really small model locally that is just processing 500ms (for example) of audio at a time through a light weight CNN or RNN. The idea here is that it's just binary classification (vs actual speech recognition).

There are some open source libraries that make this relatively easy:

- https://github.com/Kitt-AI/snowboy (looks to be shutdown now)

Leon uses Snowboy for its hotword detection. Unfortunately the project has been discontinued and is suffering from the lack of maintainability.

Voice recognition: Snowboy Hotword Detection - closed 2020-12-31

For step 6, setting up the wake word, the post recommends KITT.AI or Sensory, but Kitt is closing down and Sensory is not free. Do you know of any other services that are still around and well maintained?

Looks really nice and clean! Have you by chance tested out the snowboy hotword detector https://github.com/Kitt-AI/snowboy? (Just noticed that they are actually shutting down)

hi, i just checked it and really loved the plugin, but saw that the site that used to analyze the voice to make a new hotword (https://github.com/Kitt-AI/snowboy) got shut down at 31/12/2020, and i havent find any other place that can do that :(