Snips Blog

This publication features the articles written by the Snips team, fellows, and friends. Snips started as an AI lab in 2013, and now builds Private-by-Design, decentralized, open source voice assistants.

New Developer Contest: Smart Home Voice Projects

Compete to win a new Voice Interaction Development Kit and be one of the first to try it in your home. Plus BIG grand prizes!

YMDB

Jan 24

5 Lessons from a Failed Token Sale

We‘re shutting down the Snips AIR Token Sale and refunding all our buyers. Here’s what we learned in the process.

Rand Hindi

Dec 27, 2018

Snips brings Cloud-Level Spoken Language Understanding to the Edge

How Snips achieves cloud-level accuracy on the edge with a Raspberry Pi, fundamentally disproving a widely-held assumption.

Joseph Dureau

Nov 29, 2018

Sing your heart out with this voice-controlled Karaoke App for Raspberry Pi!

The following walkthrough doesn’t require any technical knowledge. We’ll explain how to set up the Pi, install Snips, and karoake app.

Mennad Yami

Nov 23, 2018

Snips at Maker Faire Paris 2018

Valentin f.

Nov 13, 2018

The Open Standard in Home Automation Integrates Snips

Snips recently signed a licensing agreement with ProKNX, a French company specializing in home automation using the KNX protocol.

Alexander Guy

Nov 7, 2018

Federated Learning for Wake Word detection

by David Leroy, Alice Coucke, Thibaut Lavril, Thibault Gisselbrech and Joseph Dureau

David Leroy

Nov 6, 2018

IFA 2018 Recap: It’s All On the Edge

Voice, AI, and the Future of Content

Alexander Guy

Oct 22, 2018

Read this if you want to talk to your TV.

No technical knowledge required!

George Gabonian

Oct 19, 2018

Meet Snips Around the World

TL;DR: Snips is hitting the road the rest of the year to meet you and speak at blockchain, crypto, and developer events! Join us at one…

YMDB

Oct 15, 2018

Build Your Own Private-By-Design Smart Home with Snips and Jeedom

We’re excited to announce the integration of the Snips Voice Platform with Jeedom, a leading home automation software, that brings…

Valentin f.

Sep 19, 2018

Interview with Denis Cabrol, GM of IoT Solutions at NXP

Snips recently announced a strategic collaboration with NXP, the market-leading manufacturer of processors and integrated circuits.

Alexander Guy

Sep 11, 2018

Your personal home barista comes to life with this voice-enabled coffee machine.

An open-source, private-by-design coffee machine that keeps your favorite coffee and caffeination schedule private.

Valentin f.

Sep 7, 2018

Snips Maker Release 2.0

We are introducing new, tokenized features to the Snips app-building experience. Create and publish your voice apps to the public Snips app…

Sébastien Maury

Aug 2, 2018

Decentralized Machine Learning using MPC and Secret Sharing

How we are using a combination of cryptography and blockchain to train AI algorithms without Privacy implications

Rand Hindi

Jul 9, 2018

Is it Google AIY? Nah, it’s Snips!

A guest blog post by Lars Martin

Lars Martin

Jul 6, 2018

Snips Kicks Off Plug And Play in Japan

Snips was in Asia again last week, just a few days after we returned to our Paris from Computex in Taiwan. This time, our team was…

Alexander Guy

Jun 29, 2018

Voice controlled lights with a Raspberry Pi and Snips

The objective of this article is to provide a step-by-step tutorial on how to setup a voice controlled light that you can interact with…

Adrien Ball

Jun 17, 2018

Computex 2018: The stakes are high for ODMs looking to adopt voice

The Snips team is back in our Paris office after a trip to Taipei last week with La French Tech for InnoVEX 2018, a part of the Computex…

Alexander Guy

Jun 15, 2018

How to block third party scripts with a few lines of javascript

Prevent third-party scripts from collecting data (amongst other things) without asking for any user consent

Julien Elbaz

Jun 13, 2018

Privacy and Data Protection Hits the Big Time at VivaTech 2018

The announcement that Mark Zuckerberg would speak at this year’s VivaTechnology Conference was met with mixed reactions–and even a little…

Yann Lechelle

Jun 7, 2018

GDPR Compliant Website Analytics - Putting Users in Control👌

Every website needs analytics 📈 to improve its product or service offering.

Jonas Ohlsson Aden

May 31, 2018

Deep dive into Snips Spoken Language Understanding Embedded System

How we achieved a private and efficient cloud-independent voice interface.

Joseph Dureau

May 31, 2018

Machine Learning on Voice: a gentle introduction with Snips Personal Wake Word Detector

Written by Thibault Gisselbrecht and Joseph Dureau

Thibault Gisselbrecht

May 2, 2018

Control Your Windows & Shades with Voice

A guest blog post by Laurent Chervet

Laurent Chervet

May 2, 2018

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