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Re:Offline Voice Assistant on a Microcontroller with 192KB RAM by allset_ on Monday December 12, 2022 @11:52PM (#33964986)
Because you say it's offline, but require an access token and to quote from your FAQ:

> Picovoice engines call home servers to stay active and report the consumption for billing purposes only.

That's not offline.

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Re:Offline Voice Assistant on a Microcontroller with 192KB RAM by kenarsa on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @12:12AM (#33965089)
Have you noted that the board has no connectivity chip? If I had a way to connect to internet without the required chip I had a better story to tell. You snippet of FAQ is correct for all other platforms we support aside from microcontrollers ...

[1] https://www.st.com/en/evaluation-tools/stm32f4discovery.html

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Re:Offline Voice Assistant on a Microcontroller with 192KB RAM by blkhawk on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @02:32AM (#33965886)
I have to agree that that is offline :)

I use a picovoice wake-word on my DIY offline Assistant myself (RPI-based) and I was tempted to dig up a STM devkit from somewhere but then I remembered that I probably would want a microphone array for it if it works well and I don't see a good way to integrate that.

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