Picovoice Blogs
2022 was a peculiar year for the voice AI industry, with ups and downs. While reviewing Picovoice’s 2022, we gathered updates from the other...
Recent advances in speech recognition created new opportunities in Sales and Customer Support....
Virtual meetings enables remote work and doing business internationally without having a physical place....
First, let’s start with what Trigger Word Detection means. Trigger Word Detection is an application of keyword spotting....
2022 was another busy year at Picovoice with new products, languages, SDKs, team members and customers....
“Can we deploy On-Device voice AI models On-Prem or Cloud?” is one of the frequent questions the Picovoice team receives....
Drive-thrus offer convenience and speed to grab a quick meal to customers and additional revenue stream to restaurants by increasing the cap...
Cloud Computing has been a game changer for almost two decades. It enabled products, services and even startups that wouldn’t exist otherwis...
In recent years, Edge Computing gained popularity as it offers data sovereignty, autonomy, better security, and better latency....
One should never use Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) to detect `Wake Words` or always-listening commands....
Wake Word Detection in the Cloud is not a good idea. It’s expensive, not reliable, and not private. Wake Word Detection engines are always-o...
Products built with speech-to-text cloud APIs send voice data to a 3rd party cloud unless they run on-device or on-prem....
Privacy in voice AI often raises eyebrows and is subject to jokes, as seen in the above example from Onion, the satire website....
Products built with speech-to-text cloud APIs send voice data to a 3rd party cloud unless they run on-device or on-prem....
Every voice AI vendor, including Picovoice, has an article on what WER means and how to calculate it....
Detect custom wake words using the Porcupine Wake Word engine. Porcupine Python SDK runs on Linux, macOS, Windows, Raspberry Pi, NVIDIA Jets...