Pete Warden's blog

“Pete Warden’s blog” delves into the intricacies of AI applications, focusing on topics like data augmentation, machine learning models, and the challenges of generative AI. The blog explores the importance of understanding and utilizing big data effectively, emphasizing the need for dynamic and responsive data processing. Additionally, it discusses the significance of context in AI systems, highlighting the role of precision and relevance in search mechanisms. Through detailed insights and practical examples, Pete Warden’s blog offers valuable perspectives on enhancing AI capabilities and addressing common pitfalls in AI development.

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Why I ported Moonshine to Javascript

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One of the most common requests I’ve heard from developers is an in-browser version of Moonshine that can run on a web page. In theory this should be straightforward – we already built MoonshineJS for...

How to set up Raspberry Pi wifi by just talking

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As soon as I received my first Raspberry Pi, I knew that it would be a wonderful platform to bring AI into the physical world. Since the initial hardware didn’t have good CPU support for fast arithmet...

Launching Moonshine Micro

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Long-time readers will know I’m convinced local voice interfaces and sub-$1 embedded chips will fundamentally change how we interact with everything in the physical world. That’s why I’m so excited to...

Meet Fiona and Abby

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Since it’s coming up to their “gotcha” anniversaries I would like to introduce you to Fiona (top) and Abby (below). After we lost our beloved Minpin, we kept an eye out for other Miniature Pinschers a...

Launching a free, open-source, on-device transcription app

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TL;DR – Please try Moonshine Note Taker on your Mac! For years I’ve been telling people that AI wants to be local, that on-device models aren’t just a poor man’s alternative to cloud solutions, and th...

Announcing Moonshine Voice

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Today we’re launching Moonshine Voice, a new family of on-device speech to text models designed for live voice applications, and an open source library to run them. They support streaming, doing a lot...

De-ICE Disco at the Googleplex

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When Renee Good and Alex Pretti were murdered, and I saw the incredible courage of people in Minneapolis in the face of state brutality, I had to find some way to show that tech workers stand with Min...

Speech Embeddings for Engineers

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Deciding who said what is one of the most common tasks when dealing with live speech, but there’s less information available about it than other parts of the pipeline like transcription or voice-activ...

See my friend Annie edit videos with her eyes

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I first met Annie through her work with Muttville, a local non-profit for adopting senior dogs where we found our MinPin. My wife started editing videos to help get more dogs adopted, and Annie was an...

TV Shows I Love That Nobody’s Ever Heard Of

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A big reason I started this blog (almost twenty years ago!) was to have a safe space to rant about things I’m obsessed with. One of those obsessions is TV, but growing up in the UK and living in the U...

How I Screwed Up Sales Hiring

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I founded Moonshine back in 2022, together with Manjunath, another engineer and researcher. My entire career up until that point had been working on consumer products, so I felt very comfortable with ...

I Know We’re in an AI Bubble Because Nobody Wants Me 😭

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I first got into deep learning in 2012, when AlexNet came out. I was CTO of Jetpac, a startup that aimed to provide information about bars, hotels, and restaurants by analyzing public photos, for exam...