Possible to have a generic slot?

Hi, I’m very interested in using this package for a Flutter app I’m working on.

I’m wondering if it is possible to have a slot that works somewhat like a wildcard. For example, a “food” slot is naturally difficult to make as listing all foods in a slot isn’t really feasible.

I tried to use the built-in $pv.Alphabetic slot but that seems to pick up individual letters instead of whole words.

Some examples to demonstrate exactly what I’d like to do:

How many calories are in $pv.TwoDigitInteger:quantity servings of $food:food? What pairs well with $food:food_a and $food:food_b?

[dbartle]

I don’t know if I’m understanding your suggestion fully, are you suggesting adding every entry of a database into a food slot? I also considered this after I posted this issue, and it could probably be done.

Yes. You can import and export in CSV format. We had a previous intern who used this approach to import thousands of descriptions of Emoji into a context. It required a little clean up effort to map some things like “8ball” to “eight ball” but overall worked quite well.

being able to recognize multidigit numbers would also be something I would likely need.

There’s a sharp difference between things like alphanumerics, dates, multi-digit numbers and more broad/fuzzy notions like food or people’s names.

Multi-digit numbers, dates, things like that are achievable and if you specifically want that, I suggest opening a feature request issue and we can gauge if it merits implementation on our end based on the traction of the issue. We currently also have one open for dates: https://github.com/Picovoice/rhino/issues/70.

If rhino isn’t going in this direction, is there any chance this is implemented in another SDK in the future?

Can’t tell you anything specifically on the roadmap but both Rhino and our generalized STT products are under active development, so there will be more possibilities in the future.

[AlexHartford]

Thanks! I will give that a shot.