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Context

Last couple of years, we've seen some new devices coming to the market. These devices are for example the Amazon Echo or the Google Home. They represent a big evolution in the Human-to-Machine interactions : the promise to not need a keyboard and a mouse to interact with a computer. Switch on the lights, play some music or make a research on your favorite search engine, a lot of things can be done with just our voice. But the common problems of these "internet giants" (Amazon, Google and co) are limitations first, and mostly privacy. They collect pretty much everything they can on us since many years on their different online services, but these new devices go even further : they are ears in our homes. It means technology progress comes at a price for them : our privacy.

Snips.ai (among a lot of others firms and open source projects) think we can build voice assistants differently. The point is : our voice (when we ask something for example) stays at home and is processed on an ad-hoc device such as a raspberry-pi or a Linux machine. This is the main difference, and a huge one. Google and co are sending all our datas to their servers, to analyze our requests and to answer it. There is no need for that here.

• What is Snips technology ?

Brace yourself

If you want to build a (really) personal voice assistant, or just to have fun with it, here are some steps you must follow in order to start coding/implementing things on the Software part.

1. Hardware needed
2. Prepare the raspberry-pi with Snips - need to redact
3. Amazon Web Services Polly - need to redact

Links

Some useful resources to read. Everything written in this wiki is coming from these docs, compiled and applied to this project.

Snips labs