Snips

Snips was a Paris-based artificial intelligence company that built a private-by-design, on-device voice assistant platform and natural language understanding (NLU) technology, letting developers add offline voice interfaces to connected devices without sending audio to the cloud. Snips was acquired by Sonos in November 2019 and its team became the Sonos Voice Experience group; the developer platform, hosted APIs, and console were subsequently discontinued. snips.ai now serves only a static acquisition-announcement page, and the company's open-source libraries (notably the Snips NLU engine) remain archived under the github.com/snipsco organization.

Snips is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Voice, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Understanding, and Voice Assistant.

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7.4/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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CompanyVoiceArtificial IntelligenceNatural Language UnderstandingVoice AssistantOn-Device AIPrivacyAcquired

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 7.4/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
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Security Posture 1

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Snips Domain Security

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Build 1

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Company 1

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Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
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name: Snips
description: Snips was a Paris-based artificial intelligence company that built a private-by-design, on-device voice assistant
  platform and natural language understanding (NLU) technology, letting developers add offline voice interfaces to connected
  devices without sending audio to the cloud. Snips was acquired by Sonos in November 2019 and its team became the Sonos Voice
  Experience group; the developer platform, hosted APIs, and console were subsequently discontinued. snips.ai now serves only
  a static acquisition-announcement page, and the company's open-source libraries (notably the Snips NLU engine) remain archived
  under the github.com/snipsco organization.
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