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wasmPorcupine - Web Quick Start

Platforms

  • Chrome & Chromium-based browsers
  • Edge
  • Firefox
  • Safari

Requirements

Picovoice Account & AccessKey

Signup or Login to Picovoice Console to get your AccessKey. Make sure to keep your AccessKey secret.

Quick Start

Setup

  1. Install Node.js.

  2. Install the Web Voice Processor and Porcupine Web Worker packages:

npm install @picovoice/porcupine-web-en-worker @picovoice/web-voice-processor

Usage

Create a PorcupineWorker that detects the included built-in wake words porcupine and bumblebee:

import { PorcupineWorkerFactory } from "@picovoice/porcupine-web-en-worker";


function keywordCallback(keyword) {
  console.log(`Porcupine detected ${keyword}`);
}


const porcupineWorker = await PorcupineWorkerFactory.create(
   "${ACCESS_KEY}",
   [{builtin: "Porcupine"}, {builtin: "Bumblebee"}],
   keywordCallback,
);

Initialize and start the Web Voice Processor to pass audio to the Porcupine engine:

import { WebVoiceProcessor } from "@picovoice/web-voice-processor"


const webVoiceProcessor = await WebVoiceProcessor.init({
   engines: [porcupineWorker]
});


webVoiceProcessor.start();

Release resources explicitly when done with Porcupine:

webVoiceProcessor.release()
porcupineWorker.sendMessage({command: "release"})

Custom Keywords

Create custom keywords using the Picovoice Console. Train the Porcupine keyword model for the target platform WebAssembly (WASM). Inside the downloaded .zip file, there is a _b64.txt file which contains the binary model encoded with Base64. Copy the base64 string and provide it as an argument to the PorcupineWorkerFactory.create method:

const porcupineWorker = await PorcupineWorkerFactory.create(
   "${ACCESS_KEY}",
   [{
      custom: "${CUSTOM_KEYWORD_LABEL}",
      base64: "${CUSTOM_KEYWORD_BASE64_STRING}"    
   }],
   keywordCallback
);

Non-English Languages

Import { PorcupineWorkerFactory } from the @picovoice/porcupine-web-xx-worker series of packages, where xx is the two-letter ISO language code:

import { PorcupineWorkerFactory } from "@picovoice/porcupine-web-xx-worker";

Demo

For the Porcupine Web SDK, there is a Web demo project available on the Porcupine GitHub repository.

Setup

Clone the Porcupine repository from GitHub:

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/Picovoice/porcupine.git

Usage

  1. Install dependencies and run:
cd porcupine/demo/web
npm install
npm run start
  1. Open http://localhost:5000 to view it in the browser.

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