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This is exactly why we are building the first 100% on-device and private-by-design open-source Voice AI at https://snips.ai (and we have cloud-matching performances: https://medium.com/snips-ai/snips-brings-cloud-level-spoken-...)

Disclaimer: I'm a co-founder

We believe that people want more natural interaction and AI at home, but that it should never be at the cost of their privacy. You never know what a company, or hackers, could do with recordings from your home.

This is why we are creating AI which can work on a Raspberry Pi 3, and works in english, french, german, japanese, spanish, italian (more coming very soon)

Take a look at our blog if you want to build your own smart assistant: https://blog.snips.ai

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Hey, your product looks super cool but I’m a bit stumped as to why you’re trying to force a token into it. It looks like it’s a simple payments token, which doesn’t usually turn out to be a great idea if you look at the remnants of blockchain projects that did the same in 2018.

Is this just a way to fundraise or do you have other ideas to make your product ‘decentralized’ aside from using a cryptocurrency?

For the record, everything else about the product looks amazing and I’m really excited to see an open and privacy conscience alternative in this space :)

Hi! Thanks! We are not so much forcing the token as realizing it is a technology which can answer some needs:

- it allows to build a really decentralized marketplace - it allows people to not share what are the apps they are buying, so to keep this private

Have you found that your users really want a decentralized marketplace vs what the one you've built already (which I think is really good!)? Additionally, remember that all transactions on ETH are public, so if anything transactions would be less private than if you were to contain them to a normal web2 marketplace.

Completely OT, but is the woman supposed to look that goofy/deformed?

https://imgur.com/a/DFgvNMt

Clearly the illustrator determined her head should be placed on backwards.

It got snipped and sewed back on with dental floss.

Are you working on making actual hardware like smart speakers?

I'm only asking because this would definitely help spread this kind of platform. Raspberry 3, despite being great, is not something the average Joe will mess it.

There needs to be a physical product with Snip.ai on it that people can put in their home. Something sleek and well designed, not some Rasp 3 in a case with some mic attached with duct tape.

We are working with partners, in the meantime if you want to hack, you can buy a MakersKit at https://makers.snips.ai !

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