Snips AIR Voice assistant

Snips AIR is an ecosystem which includes the voice assistant to Snips AIR for the house, shop of voice applications and a set of opportunities for developers. Processing of voice data in Snips AIR ecosystem is also executed locally on the device without use of the Internet and cloud computing.

2018: The announcement of the voice assistant with data protection

Snips, the international company in the field of speech recognition and artificial intelligence, announced on July 24, 2018 start of the voice assistant for Snips AIR house with the system of personal data protection of users on the basis of blockchain technology. The device will be available in the market at the end of 2019.

Devices as a part of Snips AIR

According to the statement of developers, several built-in applications for the most popular user queries will be included in the package of Snips AIR: using the assistant it is possible to manage all devices indoors, lighting and temperature, to open and close windows, to cook food and also to learn weather, date and time, to create reminders and events in the calendar. Users can buy new applications for the device in app store of Snips app store in exchange for Snips AIR tokens. Creates these applications and publishes community of Snips developers also in exchange for tokens as remuneration. As of July 24, the community Snips totals about 14000 developers.

Use of tokens means for ensuring work of app store that Snips will not influence what is created by developers — the community independently makes decisions and supervises work of Snips app store. Such mechanism provides the publication only of high-quality applications and excludes a possibility of censorship which often meets in shops of mobile applications — explained in Snips company. — Besides, it guarantees that, unlike the centralized assistants, Snips does not obtain any data on the users.

Equipment manufacturers can also integrate Snips AIR ecosystem into the products and offer the clients access to app store and community of developers, guaranteeing at the same time confidentiality of data for the clients.

According to the cofounder and the chief executive officer of Snips company Randa Hindi, the existing voice assistants "personify all shortcomings of today's Internet": personal data are stored on a centralized basis, users have no right to confidentiality, developers should share the data with Internet giant, at the same time without earning a reward for creation and the publication of applications.

Thanks to decentralization of all our voice ecosystem, we can provide personal data protection of users and we allow our community of developers to receive benefit from this ecosystem, without worrying about censorship. The Snips AIR device which will be available in the market at the end of 2019 will offer a real alternative to consumers and equipment manufacturers who care for personal data protection — emphasized Hindi Rand.

As of July, 2018, the Snips technology supports the English, French, German and Japanese languages. Start of Russian is planned for 2020.

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