Curiosity will bring to SDK

Hello, Khabryanin, old and young. A voice from the sandbox would like to share with you a discovery that is not a discovery either, but just like that, the satisfaction of a single curiosity on the scale of a single phenomenon.

The other day I was staggering on the site of the upcoming MDD and found Nuance among the speakers - the name got hooked, but only realized where and why - not right away. The fact is that, being the owner of the iPhone (I repent), I periodically use the AppStore. There (I remembered), only quite earlier, I saw a similar icon (i.e. it wasn’t even the name). I got it, checked it - it really took place. What the MDD member badge associated with is called Dragon Dictation, and it was developed by this very Nuance: there was such a feature in the summer, the app recognizes speech, and, accordingly, SMS can be dictated. This is so claimed. I, do not be a fool (desperately killing work time), downloaded - I liked it rather than not. As an old friend of a similar service from Google, I will take the liberty of saying that it recognizes at least as well.
At this point, my reader, I had already become interested and climbed back to MDD, to look at the speaker. Nuance Communications , a modestly presented company, is committed to developing voice solutions . Voice solutions, respectively, when they convert either voice to text or text to speech. Among the heap of directions that American potential friends are engaged in, so far only mobile voice applications have reached the Russian market.

Rather, mobile applications and one more thing that has taken my attention, about which Nuance will be talked about on MDD, and which is most directly related to any developer or owner of an Android application. Officially, the thing is calledNuance Mobile Developer Program or NDEV. It was created, apparently, on the heels of successful applications, and is an SDK (i.e. toolkit) for a mobile developer. If you believe the developers of the platform itself, this SDK, which turned out to be a few kilobytes of code, documentation and instructions for use, works on the Android, iPhone and Windows Phone platforms, and literally within an hour allows you to insert voice services from Nuance into your native application.

There are 3 services to choose from ( magic? ), You can choose one of them, based on the understanding that you need for a particular application: two of the three are even named the same applications - Dictation (dictation) and Search (voice search by content or online). Surprised by the third service, TTS or Text-to-Speech, which promises to process the sent text on the affectionate Massachusetts servers of the company and convert it into a “pleasant, naturally-sounding Russian” (I hope not male) voice. Several dozens of popular languages ​​are supported for each service, including Russian - this is what the comrade Raimund Schmald’s talk on MDD is about, I won’t say the topic for sure, you want it - good luck, 2011.mdday.ru

I read further. It is also proposed to choose from 3 levels of cooperation, i.e. You have 3 ( exactly magical ) programs to choose from: Silver, Gold and Emerald. Why “emerald” - I think, because look at the colors of the logo.

Something touched me the honorary "green" membership instead of the traditional "platinum".

So, each level of cooperation implies certain privileges and the amount of authority provided by developers, but fundamentally differs in this way (taken from the program’s website, dragonmobile.nuancemobiledeveloper.com/public/index.php?task=faq ): The

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good news was, that the "silver" and "gold" programs are free.

So, what do we have: a certain Nuance offers Russian developers a free platform for introducing speech services into applications based on Android: voice dictation, search, or speech synthesis. It introduces itself archival fast (in pieces of code "as is"), an hour of implementation, a few more - debugging. No additional cost. The only thing that, in my opinion, is necessary, in addition to the desire to introduce contact with Newans, ispretty fast mobile internet because any processing of voice or text is carried out by a "cloud", not a device. Well, some money, if you are still going to cooperate "emerald."

By the way, the documentation with the code after registration came promptly. One problem - I can’t create applications, at all. But, apparently, it will be necessary, otherwise it’s uncomfortable.

The civic duty is fulfilled, conscience is free, I am silent. I hope that everything from the above will only be good, and no one will feel bad.

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