Porcupine
Wake word detection
Company describes it as "The #1 wake word detection repository on GitHub for years, with nothing comparable since its launch."
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Vancouver company selling on-device voice, language and vision AI SDKs — including Porcupine wake word, Cheetah and Leopard speech-to-text, Orca text-to-speech and picoLLM — that run locally on devices rather than calling a cloud API.

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Vancouver company selling on-device voice, language and vision AI SDKs — including Porcupine wake word, Cheetah and Leopard speech-to-text, Orca text-to-speech and picoLLM — that run locally on devices rather than calling a cloud API.
British Columbia corporation BC1149203, registered 2018-01-16, entity status Active on the province's OrgBook registry service. orgbook.gov.bc.ca
Its own terms of use state Picovoice Inc. is "a Canadian corporation registered in the province of British Columbia", with disputes litigated in Vancouver. picovoice.ai
Describes an edge-first proprietary training framework and a proprietary inference engine, contrasting them with typical edge stacks that use cloud-pretrained models and generic runtimes. picovoice.ai
States its stack runs locally: "No cloud API calls, no network latency, no data leaving the device." picovoice.ai
Products Picovoice publishes on its own site. Each card links to the page it was taken from.
Wake word detection
Company describes it as "The #1 wake word detection repository on GitHub for years, with nothing comparable since its launch."
Learn moreStreaming speech-to-text
Company describes it as "The only easy-to-customize, efficient, and cross-platform on-device streaming speech-to-text engine with cloud accuracy."
Learn moreLLM compression and inference
Company describes it as "The only end-to-end local LLM platform empowering enterprises to deploy language models on any device without sacrificing accuracy or speed."
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