Adrien Ball

Open Source Projects

Publications

2018

• Snips voice platform: an embedded spoken language understanding system for private-by-design voice interfaces
This paper presents the machine learning architecture of the Snips Voice Platform, a software solution to perform Spoken Language Understanding on microprocessors typical of IoT devices.

Talks

2019

• Podcast.__init__ interview
I was interviewed by Tobias Macey, who hosts the Podcast.__init__ python podcast, to talk about what it means to build a privacy preserving voice assistant.

• Experiences from going open source
I made this presentation at the Open Science in Practice (OSIP) summer school at EPFL Lausanne on September 2019 (osip2019.epfl.ch). It presents some of the important things I have learned in the process of open sourcing the Snips NLU python library.

Articles

2020

• Get rid of mobile ads with a Raspberry Pi Zero and Pi-hole
Many people use an ad-blocker when they are browsing the web on their laptop. That does the job pretty efficiently. However, we are powerless when it comes to blocking ads on our smartphone.

2018

• Voice controlled lights with a Raspberry Pi and Snips

The objective of this article is to provide a step-by-step tutorial on how to setup a voice controlled light that you can interact with using trigger words.