Hacker GitHub

← All repos

Picovoice/porcupine

View on GitHub ↗ ★ 5,017 Python

On-device wake word detection powered by deep learning

13 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 4 stories, 9 comments · first 2018-03-26 · latest 2026-03-05

Mentions per year 13 mentions · busiest year 2018 (9)
20082026
AllStoriesComments NewestTopOldest
  1. ▲ 1
    Porcupine – On-device wake word detection powered by deep learning
    story by modinfo · 2026-03-05 · 0 comments
  2. …up when the wake word triggers. Eerie to view, I'm sure... https://github.com/dscripka/openWakeWord https://github.com/Picovoice/porcupine
    comment by accrual · 2025-07-15 · in Show HN: Shoggoth Mini – A soft tentacle robot powered by GPT-4o and RL
  3. …[1] https://github.com/MycroftAI/mycroft-precise [2] https://github.com/kitt-ai/snowboy [3] https://github.com/Picovoice/porcupine
    comment by abrichr · 2020-03-14 · in Ask HN: Non-cloud voice recognition for home use?
  4. https://github.com/Picovoice/Porcupine
    comment by neysofu · 2019-05-27 · in Arm announces its new premium CPU and GPU designs
  5. ▲ 1
    On-device voice control engine powered by deep learning
    story by crunchiebones · 2018-10-12 · 0 comments
  6. Link to the github repo: https://github.com/picovoice/porcupine The keyword generating application: https://github.com/Picovoice/Porcupine/tree/master/tools/opt... The keyword generating application is free for personal use only and…
    comment by pault · 2018-10-12 · in Picovoice – Embed private voice AI into any product instantly
  7. …is all open-source but https://github.com/Picovoice/ does not have a Picovoice repository. Is it https://github.com/Picovoice/Porcupine ?
    comment by anc84 · 2018-10-12 · in Picovoice – Embed private voice AI into any product instantly
  8. That's odd. If there are errors in the console. Please open an issue in the GitHub repo is possible: https://github.com/Picovoice/Porcupine Otherwise, I am thinking it could be something related to the microphone?
    comment by kenarsa · 2018-10-07 · in Voice control engine that runs fully in the browser using WebAssembly
  9. thanks a lot for the feedback :) Take a look at this standalone demo if you like https://github.com/Picovoice/Porcupine/tree/master/demo/js it should be a matter of tweaking a few parameters.
    comment by kenarsa · 2018-10-07 · in Voice control engine that runs fully in the browser using WebAssembly
  10. Looks like this is source for the wake word engine: https://github.com/Picovoice/Porcupine But their site says to email for licensing, which bodes poorly. EDIT: License for "Porcupine" is Apache but with this: THIS LICENSE APPLIES TO…
    comment by yjftsjthsd-h · 2018-10-07 · in Voice control engine that runs fully in the browser using WebAssembly
  11. Thanks for the question. You can use our first product: https://github.com/Picovoice/Porcupine . It is a voice-control (wake-word) engine. It allows you to detect multiple keywords (phrases) in the audio stream in real time with no delay…
    comment by kenarsa · 2018-08-07 · in Speech-to-Text Benchmark: Framework for benchmarking speech-to-text engines
  12. ▲ 7
    Picovoice pledges to democratize voice-enabled interfaces starting with iOS
    story by aanhari · 2018-05-04 · 0 comments
  13. ▲ 6
    Porcupine: On-device wake-word detection engine powered by deep learning
    story by kenarsa · 2018-03-26 · 0 comments