At Picovoice, we know building voice features that perform in the real world is hard. We help organizations by building the best-in-class…
Monica Lam is a Professor in the Computer Science department at Stanford University since 1988. She holds a B.Sc. from the University of…
Picovoice achieves cloud-level accuracy with tiny Speech-to-Text models, addressing privacy, cost, and reliability problems of the $3…
IDC predicts that new data generated globally will reach 175 ZB by 2025 compared to 64.2 ZB in 2020. More than 80% of 175 ZB will be…
Times of crisis spur lasting innovation. With COVID-19, the transition from physical to digital has brought lasting change to how we think…
TL; DR: Voice streamlines healthcare workflows and improves the patient experience. Picovoice integration into medical equipment can create…
The podcast industry is growing. A recent study estimates that the number of listeners in the US was above 162 million in 2021. […
The US, Canada, France, Japan, and Germany are just a few of 34 countries where more than 20% of the population will be over 65 years old by…
Researchers have recently experimented with wake words of Amazon Echo, Google Home, and Jibo Robot to see the effect of branding on voice…
The COVID-19 has changed our lives in many ways. While only 5% of work hours were spent at home at the beginning of 2020, it went up to 6…
Picovoice is built by developers for developers. It’s not surprising that there’s an exhaustive list of SDKs that are available to build…
It’s been a busy year at Picovoice. In case you missed some of our news, we summarized them. See the highlights below, and let us know…
V2.0 releases of Porcupine wake word and Rhino Speech-to-Intent engines achieve much higher accuracies than the predecessors and add…
“Integrating a wake word engine is expensive, involves upfront cost, and takes time. Although affordable for big companies this can be a…
You read Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, watched Free Guy, heard Facebook, Microsoft or NVIDIA's plans for metaverse, or Gucci and Roblox…
We pay our credit card bills every month, yet most of us struggle to find the payment portal in the banking web application. Filling complex…
Can you imagine modern life without Google search? In the mid-1990s, the World Wide Web’s popularity created a deluge of novel text data…
Voice activity detection (VAD) is a crucial component of many speech processing solutions. VAD detects the presence of a human voice within…
What's voice picking? Voice picking, also known as voice-directed picking, speech-based picking, pick by voice, or pick-to-voice, uses…
Web Wake Words Voice-activated assistants have become part of our lives via mobile devices (like Siri) and smart speakers (like Alexa). But…
Picovoice has released its new Web SDK with out-of-the-box support across all major frameworks, including Angular, React, and Vue. Picovoice…
Today we are announcing the public availability of Picovoice Shepherd : the first no-code platform for building voice interfaces on…
Picovoice announces early access to its private voice AI SDK for the German language. Picovoice enables creating voice experiences similar…
Picovoice Console is the platform for designing, training, and testing voice interfaces instantly in your browser. No machine learning…
We are making all major voice assistant wake words available for free under the permissive Apache 2.0 license: Alexa Hey Google & Okay…
Why offline when you're online? Offline Voice AI in a browser may seem contradictory. Doesn’t using a web browser mean you’re online? But…
We are excited to announce the release of Porcupine version 1.8, which achieves major accuracy and runtime efficiency improvements. This is…
Developers face myriad choices when building voice products. Although the end results are similar, different approaches carry significant…
Adoption of voice interfaces on mobile platforms has grown rapidly in recent years. This surge is almost entirely driven by voice assistants…
Voice recognition has flourished with the growth of cloud-based speech services. Despite the ubiquity of voice-enabled products, processing…
Inferring intent from spoken commands is at the core of any modern voice user interface (VUI). Typically the inference is performed within a…
Wake word detection is used in almost every application with a Voice User Interface (VUI) supporting hands-free operation. Wake phrases…
Cloud computing has been the driving force in the adoption of voice AI, but it has inherent limitations due to its reliance on connectivity…