Picovoice's voice assistant promises cloud-level accuracy on edge devices

Picovoice, a Canadian company, wants to put a voice assistant that promises cloud-level accuracy onto all manner of edge devices, and even within a web browser. There are three components in the process -- a wake word, speech-to-text translation, and speech-to-intent. Picovoice previously rolled out Porcupine for wake word detection and Rhino to handle speech-to-intent, but it's now added Cheetah speech-to-text translation to complete the trio. All are available via GitHub. The stack operates in real time on-device, without an internet connection, and promises extremely low resource requirements.