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Picovoice

AIVancouver, BC

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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Company site: picovoice.ai

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 & Services

Company site: picovoice.ai

Products Picovoice publishes on its own site. Each card links to the page it was taken from.

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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Cheetah

Streaming 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."

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picoLLM

LLM 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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Technology Focus

Company site: picovoice.ai

Terms the company uses about its own work.

On-device AIWake word detectionSpeech-to-text

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