Note this forthcoming D4 seminar on Wednesday, June 20 at 2pm, room A008.

It will be given by Maël Primet (Snips).

Title :
Presenting Snips: a Platform for Natural Language Understanding and Speech Recognition on the edge

Abstract :
Snips is building a Voice AI platform running 100% on embedded devices, comprising of a wake-word detector, an automated speech recognizer, and natural language understanding. As microprocessors become cheaper and more powerful, moving computations to the edge provides many advantages: privacy-by-design, 100% availability, lower costs, higher reactivity. But this also requires tradeoffs in terms of accuracy, as larger models are not able to run on commodity chips. This talk will present some aspects of the Snips platform and tradeoffs which have been made to guarantee high accuracy while reducing model sizes.