snips-nlu-rs VS Porcupine  

I am in shop for a speech recon library that works offline and can fit on a phone (Android).

I used to use Snips AI (https://snips.ai/), which worked well until it was acquired by Sonos. Now the portal is down and I can't modify the model anymore.

Looking for something ideally written in C or that can target C for portability. Free/libre and copyleft preferable to avoid the acquisition trap again.

Tapping into the vast pools of knowledge of HN; could you please suggest alternatives, preferably ones you have experience with?

Thank you.

Hey guys, I'm trying to write something that parses intents. I came across this: snips-nlu.

I call it DaVinci. DaVinci uses Picovoice (https://picovoice.ai/) solutions for wake word and voice activity detection and for converting speech to text, Amazon Polly to convert its responses into a natural sounding voice, and OpenAI’s GPT 3.5 to do the heavy lifting. It’s all contained in about 300 lines of Python code.

Download pre-trained models: "Porcupine" from Porcupine Wake Word and Video Player Context from Rhino Speech-to-Intent repositories - You can also train a custom models on Picovoice Console.

Below are some useful resources: Open-source code Picovoice Platform SDK Picovoice website

Download the Porcupine model and turn the binary model into a base64 string.

Download Porcupine (i.e. Deep Neural Network). Run the following to turn the binary model into a base64 string, from the project folder.

Porcupine SDK Porcupine SDK is on GitHub. Find libraries for supported MCUs on the Porcupine GitHub repository. Arduino libraries are available via a specialized package manager offered by Arduino.

Looking for more? Explore other languages on the Picovoice Console and check out for fully-working demos with Porcupine on GitHub.

Don't forget to visit Porcupine's Wake Word's Github repository to see Python demos. If you want to do something similar to the video above, find the open-source codes here

I sometimes see the term "end-to-end", and it always passes right by my ears as marketing jargon. For example, there was a recent post today that linked to this page: https://picovoice.ai/, and you'll find the statement "... end-to-end platform for adding voice to anything on your terms". I did a quick Google search and it seems like the term is used in many different contexts (e.g., encryption, enterprise software for product development, etc.), but to be honest, I'm just not getting it. Maybe someone can explain here within the realm of embedded software? Could you provide some examples as well?