🆕 Software Suggestion | Snips #970

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2019-06-04T11:18:48Z

maelp commented

2019-06-04 11:18:48 +00:00

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Basic Information

Name: Snips
Category: Software / Voice assistants
URL: https://snips.ai

Description

Snips is the first true private-by-design Voice AI assistant, because it works 100% offline. It is available in english, french, german, japanese, spanish, italian, and more coming! You can build your own assistants in a few minutes by using the web console and download the offline assistants to your Raspberry Pi, Linux, osX, Android, or iOS. It is also 100% free for makers!

## Basic Information **Name:** Snips **Category:** Software / Voice assistants **URL:** https://snips.ai ## Description Snips is the first true private-by-design Voice AI assistant, because it works 100% offline. It is available in english, french, german, japanese, spanish, italian, and more coming! You can build your own assistants in a few minutes by using the web console and download the offline assistants to your Raspberry Pi, Linux, osX, Android, or iOS. It is also 100% free for makers!

blacklight447 commented

2019-06-07 07:37:37 +00:00

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I think this would require a new category on the website, maybe stuff like "digital assistants?

maelp commented

2019-06-07 07:43:36 +00:00

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Would be great!

freddy-m commented

2020-05-18 14:13:39 +00:00

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Mycroft could also be an addition potentially?

koenvervloesem commented

2020-05-18 14:29:10 +00:00

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Snips has been bought by Sonos and the Snips Console needed to create Snips apps is not available anymore since January 31, 2020.

Last time I checked, Mycroft still sends your voice commands to their own servers. See their privacy policy:

When you use our Services, your audio commands are transmitted to Mycroft for processing, as part of the Services. We may also collect other metadata about your audio commands, such as the time and location.

An alternative voice assistant is Rhasspy (disclaimer: I'm a contributor). As far as I know, this is the only voice assistant that:

works 100% offline (no voice commands are sent to a server on the internet)
is entirely free/open source with a permissive license
works well with freely available home automation software

Many Snips users (including me) have moved on to Rhasspy.

Snips has been bought by Sonos and the Snips Console needed to create Snips apps is not available anymore since January 31, 2020. Last time I checked, Mycroft still sends your voice commands to their own servers. See their [privacy policy](https://mycroft.ai/embed-privacy-policy/): > When you use our Services, your audio commands are transmitted to Mycroft for processing, as part of the Services. We may also collect other metadata about your audio commands, such as the time and location. An alternative voice assistant is [Rhasspy](https://rhasspy.github.io/rhasspy-voltron/) (disclaimer: I'm a contributor). As far as I know, this is the only voice assistant that: - works 100% offline (no voice commands are sent to a server on the internet) - is entirely free/open source with a permissive license - works well with freely available home automation software Many Snips users (including me) have moved on to Rhasspy.

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blacklight447 commented

2020-05-27 13:14:04 +00:00

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So @koenvervloesem , am i right thinking that Snips is now no longer fully open source?

koenvervloesem commented

2020-05-27 13:41:21 +00:00

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It never was fully open source. Only specific parts such as the NLU component.

blacklight447 commented

2020-05-27 13:42:38 +00:00

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interesting, and how is the situation for Rhasspy?

koenvervloesem commented

2020-05-27 14:03:42 +00:00

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The code is fully open source, MIT licensed. It's a toolkit, so you can interface it with various voice related projects, both online and offline or open source and proprietary, but the focus is on a complete offline and open source software stack. See https://github.com/rhasspy.

freddy-m commented

2021-01-23 12:43:29 +00:00

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If this is not open source then I don't think we need to add it, given that we don't even have a section dedicated to voice assistants.

@privacytools/editorial

If this is not open source then I don't think we need to add it, given that we don't even have a section dedicated to voice assistants. @privacytools/editorial

gary-host-laptop commented

2021-01-23 13:49:09 +00:00

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Almond is another libre software voice assistant, just in case.

Maybe this is relevant for accessibility, though, so it may be worthwhile to have it listed, even though it's a bit out of boundaries from the project goal.

[Almond](https://almond.stanford.edu/) is another libre software voice assistant, just in case. Maybe this is relevant for accessibility, though, so it may be worthwhile to have it listed, even though it's a bit out of boundaries from the project goal.

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