Comments on: Nuance Releases Mobile SDK To Speechify Apps

By: Leg'Z

Leg'Z — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 23:45:56 +0000

Bullshit !
It’s so expensive… dev will be will be indebted, for sure :/
More info here : http://wakevoice.adnfxmobile.fr/en/dragon-mobile-sdk-bullshit/

By: pierre

pierre — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 10:37:32 +0000

The issue is that this is really costly if you go into production -it is only free for testing. You have to pay for each speech recognition or text to speech. In addition, everything is done via Internet (the SDK does not contains the engine) , so users need a very good connection so that it works.
All the others players are using a royalty model (in average they take 21% of the listed price of the app except if you are sure to sell a lot of units). This is big if your app is just using the speech engine as a nice to have feature.

By: Srini Kumar

Srini Kumar — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 21:33:56 +0000

Ryan, this is incredibly exciting news. I’d love for you to take a look at our new free iPhone app, TinyVox, which lets you tape and email an MP3 directly to anywhere – including your Evernote email address !

So if Evernote folks are reading this – please integrate onboard voice recognition into your audio platform, so that users can not just email MP3s into Evernote, but have them translated for them on the fly ! Go Nuance, thank you for this awesomeness :)

By: Ryan Kim

Ryan Kim — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 21:12:38 +0000

Thanks for reading Brian.

By: Brian S Hall

Brian S Hall — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 19:34:53 +0000

Great article, Ryan.