| Date | Title | Description |
| 06.05.2024 | Electricity Maps calculates the carbon intensity of electricity consumption to optimize usage at scale | If you’re an electricity nerd, chances are you’ve already spent quite a few hours looking at Electricity Maps and its mesmerizing export flow animations. This open-source data visualization project has been around since 2016. But companies ... |
| 21.11.2019 | Sonos Acquires Snips for $37.5 Million | Sonos Acquires Snips for $37.5 Million
Bret Kinsella on November 21, 2019 at 6:20 am
Sonos announced yesterday that it has acquired Snips for $37.5 million. The purchase price is below the valuation of $50 million that was assigned to the c... |
| 20.11.2019 | Sonos acquires privacy-conscious AI startup Snips for $37.5 million | Audio company Sonos today announced the acquisition of Snips, a privacy-conscious conversational AI company based in Paris. The $37.5 million acquisition will bring machine learning engineers and others from Snips, a company with about 50 e... |
| 20.11.2019 | Sonos acquires privacy-conscious AI startup Snips for $37.5 million | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Audio company Sonos today announced the acquisition of Snips, a privacy-conscious conversational AI company based in Paris. The $37.5 m... |
| 06.09.2019 | Snips Partners with NXP for New Voice Control Platform | Snips Partners with NXP for New Voice Control Platform
Eric Hal Schwartz on September 6, 2019 at 3:00 am
Voice AI developer Snips announced the creation of a new voice control platform in collaboration with NXP Semiconductors on Friday. The... |
| 03.09.2019 | 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 transla... |
| 03.09.2019 | Picovoice’s voice assistant promises cloud-level accuracy on edge devices | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Picovoice, a Canadian company, wants to put a voi... |
| 31.08.2019 | The shift toward open source conversational AI | In July, Uber released a new open source AI library called the Plato research dialogue system. A couple of months ago, Cisco open-sourced its MindMeld conversational AI platform, after acquiring the company of the same name in 2017 for $125... |
| 31.08.2019 | The shift toward open source conversational AI | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
In July, Uber released a new open source AI libra... |
| 08.01.2019 | CES 2019 – Eight Interviews with Voice Innovators – Voicebot Podcast Ep 78 | CES 2019 – Eight Interviews with Voice Innovators – Voicebot Podcast Ep 78
Bret Kinsella on January 8, 2019 at 12:08 pm
CES 2019 officially kicks off today, but Voicebot already has eight interviews with a select group of voice innovators e... |
| 01.01.2019 | 2019 Predictions From 35 Voice Industry Leaders | 2019 Predictions From 35 Voice Industry Leaders
Bret Kinsella on January 1, 2019 at 8:11 pm
Our list of 2019 predictions for the voice industry was contributed by 35 Voice Insider readers. One email was sent out and the responses are below,... |
| 26.12.2018 | Rand Hindi: Human-Like Artificial Intelligence is Never Going to Exist | Dr. Rand Hindi says that without emotional intelligence machines will never be able to obtain human-like artificial intelligence. Reminiscent of Data on Star Trek Next Generation, Hindi says that despite the impressive ability of machines t... |
| 18.09.2018 | Committed to privacy, Snips founder wants to take on Alexa and Google, with blockchain | Earlier this year we saw the headlines of how the users of popular voice assistants like Alexa and Siri and continue to face issues when their private data is compromised, or even sent to random people. In May it was reported that Amazon’s ... |
| 09.07.2018 | Rand Hindi CEO of Snips Talks Independent Voice Assistants, Privacy, Block Chain and ICO – Voicebot Podcast Ep 51 | Rand Hindi CEO of Snips Talks Independent Voice Assistants, Privacy, Block Chain and ICO – Voicebot Podcast Ep 51
Bret Kinsella on July 9, 2018 at 12:09 pm
Rand Hindi is co-founder and CEO of Snips.ai. He is the former CEO of Hinran, a web ... |
| 06.06.2018 | Top tech startup news stories you need to know this Wednesday, June 6 | Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories for today, Wednesday, June 6.
Microsoft launches underwater datacenter off Scottish coast. Microsoft has announced the next phase of Project Natick , a research project to de... |
| 30.05.2018 | Snips to Enter Smart Speaker Arena and Fund the Effort with an ICO | Snips to Enter Smart Speaker Arena and Fund the Effort with an ICO
Bret Kinsella on May 30, 2018 at 12:30 pm
The Paris and New York-based AI startup Snips yesterday announced plans to launch a smart speaker in 2019 and will fund the effort ... |
| 25.05.2018 | Snips announces an ICO and its own voice assistant device | French startup Snips has been working on voice assistant technology that respects your privacy. And the company is going to use its own voice assistant for a set of consumer devices. As part of this consumer push, the company is also announ... |
| 22.05.2018 | The birth of the Universal Digital Profile | Rand Hindi Contributor
Rand Hindi is the founder and CEO of Snips.
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The birth of the Universal Digital Profile
It is a well-known fact that Europeans are generally more concerned about privacy than some other c... |
| 22.02.2018 | Snips brings its privacy-focused voice assistant to cars | French startup Snips is announcing two things for its voice assistant SDK. First, the company is showing off an interesting use case in Nuremberg with a Snips -powered voice assistant in a car. Second, you can now build voice assistants in ... |
| 27.11.2017 | Understanding user privacy in the age of smart speakers | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Voice is becoming a primary interface. It’s in ma... |
| 22.11.2017 | Snips lets you build your own voice assistant to embed into your devices | French startup Snips is now helping you build a custom voice assistant for your device. Snips doesn’t use Amazon’s Alexa Voice Service or Google Assistant SDK — the company is building its own voice assistant so that you can embed it on you... |
| 14.06.2017 | Term Sheet — Wednesday, June 14 | ET CETERA
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has taken an indefinite leave of absence from the company, which means this site was not helpful at all (you had one job…). As we noted on Monday, the company will be run by a committee, which is not ideal... |
| 14.06.2017 | Snips, an AI voice platform provider, raises $13 million Series A | Snips, an AI voice platform provider based in Paris and New York City, has raised $13 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Korelya Capital and MAIF Avenir, with participation from BPI France and previous backer Eniac Ventures. ... |
| 14.06.2017 | AI Voice Platform Snips Raises $13 Million | AI Voice Platform Snips Raises $13 Million
Ava Mutchler on June 14, 2017 at 12:00 pm
Snips’ pre-built intents
Today, Snips announced it has raised $13 million for its AI voice platform. The company has now raised a total of $21 million for ... |
| 06.11.2016 | France makes its bid to be recognized as a global AI hub | Disclosure: Organizers of the “France is AI” conference paid travel expenses for the reporter to attend and moderate several sessions at the event.
Tucked into a courtyard in central Paris, the 35 employees of Snips are hunched over their c... |
| 06.11.2016 | France makes its bid to be recognized as a global AI hub | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Disclosure: Organizers of the “France is AI” conf... |
| 13.06.2016 | La French Tech: 6 Paris startups to watch | Disclosure: Business France, an agency of the French government that promotes the country’s economy, organized a tour of Paris’ startup community and paid for my travel and hotel.
During a week I spent trucking around the Paris ecosystem wi... |
| 17.05.2016 | Snips is a personal assistant that combines all your data in one app | French startup Snips is launching its first product today, an iOS app that is supposed to make your life easier by letting you view and search your data more easily. Snips is a personal assistant that helps you know where you need to be and... |
| 17.05.2016 | How The Snips App Uses Its AI To Act As More Than A ‘Digital Butler’ | Krystle Vermes, Tech Times 17 May 2016, 10:05 am
To make it a bit easier to stay organized, Snips launched a free iOS app on May 17 that is being marketed as a way to "extend your memory."
Based on artificial intelligence, Snips c... |
| 17.05.2016 | Why you should bet big on privacy | Rand Hindi Contributor
Rand Hindi is the founder and CEO of Snips.
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The birth of the Universal Digital Profile
Ever felt like you were being watched online? You know, like when you read something about New York... |
