Snips

While doing some searching for voice-recognition applications, I stumbled across Snips…world-wide there has become an issue with the privacy aspects with the likes of the Amazon Echo, Google’s Assistant, and Microsoft’s Cortona – with snips, privacy is the paramount design parameter – ” At Snips, we believe in Privacy by Design… Snips was built from scratch to protect your privacy. Everything runs directly on-device, meaning no one will ever hear your voice but you. This required over 4 years of research, during which our team pushed the limits of what can be done with AI on tiny devices.” And, best of all for me, they operate open-source so users can develop their own proprietary applications…

Well, what that wound up meaning for me is the availability of a voice-assistant with the front-end robustness equal to the voice-recognition capabilities of Alexa-like devices, yet with access to their open-source code and community-shared applications that would allow me to create my own specific action-results in an environment of a Raspberry Pi, which meant that I would then have access to outputting serial commands from the RPi to a robot – wow, such potential…I shifted all my attention to creating a Snips Voice Assistant, and, finding a robot that I felt could work with this approach…I describe all that in the next section of the web site – Robotis Bioloid Premium…