Pete Warden, CEO of Useful Sensors, presents the “Voice Interfaces on a Budget: Building Real-time Speech Recognition on Low-cost Hardware” tutorial at the May 2025 Embedded Vision Summit. In this talk, Warden presents Moonshine, a speech-to-text model that outperforms OpenAI’s Whisper by a factor of five in terms of speed.… “Voice Interfaces on a Budget: […]
On April 29, 2025 from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM PT, Alliance Member company Andes Technology will deliver the RISC-V CON Silicon Valley event at the DoubleTree Hotel by Hilton in San Jose, CA. Jeff Bier, Founder of the Edge AI and Vision Alliance, will be one of the invited guest speakers. From the event
In data centers, ML researchers’ vote for Nvidia is what made Nvidia a runaway success in AI training. On the embedded market, who holds the key for edge AI? What’s at stake: Edge AI – or AIOT (Artificial Intelligence of Things) – on the embedded market has been a hot notion among MCU vendors for
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Jacqueline Cervantes, Head of Sales and Business Development at Useful Sensors, demonstrates the company’s latest edge AI and vision technologies and products at the December 2024 Edge AI and Vision Alliance Forum. Specifically, Cervantes demonstrates her company’s Torre standalone translation solution, which provides real-time, on-device, and secure voice translation and transcription. Useful Sensors is dedicated
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Sally Ward-Foxton, Senior Reporter at EE Times, moderates the “Multimodal LLMs at the Edge: Are We There Yet?” Expert Panel at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit. Other panelists include Adel Ahmadyan, Staff Engineer at Meta Reality Labs, Jilei Hou, Vice President of Engineering and Head of AI Research at Qualcomm Technologies, Pete Warden, CEO
Pete Warden, CEO of Useful Sensors, presents the “Deploying Large Language Models on a Raspberry Pi,” tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit. In this presentation, Warden outlines the key steps required to implement a large language model (LLM) on a Raspberry Pi. He begins by outlining the motivations for running LLMs on the
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Check out the expert panel discussion “Multimodal LLMs at the Edge: Are We There Yet?” at the upcoming 2024 Embedded Vision Summit, taking place May 21-23 in Santa Clara, California! The Summit is the premier conference for innovators incorporating computer vision and edge AI in products. It attracts a global audience of technology professionals from
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Can anyone make ‘smart home’ devices useful to consumers? A Calif. startup, Useful Sensors, believes it has the magic potion. What’s at stake? Talk of edge AI, particularly machine learning, has captivated the IoT market. Yet, actual consumer products with local machine learning capabilities, are rare. Who’s ready to pull that off? Will it be
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Jeff Bier, Founder of the Edge AI and Vision Alliance, moderates the “Accelerating the Era of AI Everywhere,” Expert Panel at the May 2023 Embedded Vision Summit. Other panelists include Dean Kamen, Founder of DEKA Research and Development, Lokwon Kim, CEO of DEEPX, Jason Lavene, Director of Advanced Development Engineering at Keurig Dr Pepper, and
Useful Sensors and OKdo make machine learning easy, secure and accessible to global customers, resellers and distributor partners. Partnership brings small, low-cost machine learning hardware modules to the mass market, providing capabilities such as presence detection, hand gesture recognition, and voice interface. London, UK, 14 March 2023 – Useful Sensors today announced a global manufacturing
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