Prioritizing Privacy: Add Offline Speech Recognition to a Java Application

Integrating voice commands into a Java application has been a traditionally daunting task. While JDK provides a Speech API, it is unfortunately only an interface to a collection of outdated products and third-party cloud providers. Let's leave all this behind and add some modern, offline speech recognition to our Java application. By keeping it offline we can ensure our user's data is kept on-device, thereby prioritizing their privacy and security. The Picovoice SDK provides a class that encapsulates both the Porcupine wake word engine and the Rhino Speech-to-Intent engine.