kip said:What is Pleco's plans to offer a English Speech-to-Text and Mandarin Speech-to-Character add-on?
pprendeville said:only problem is you have to be online for the speech to text feature to work. not always possible if coverage isn't great. i was surprised actually when I sw it on Android. great feature.
kip said:*** For what Pleco CAN do, I give kudos to the designer(s) and programmer(s), an excellent job peppered with pleasant surprises. Many "Nice!", "Sweet!", "Slick!", etc moments. ***
kip said:What are Pleco's plans to offer full sentence/paragraph translation? (including back translation for better translation confidence)
Does iOS let you hook into the system and change the language you want to do speech-to-text with? For instance, if my language settings are english, would an app be able to do speech to text in japanese?mikelove said:kip said:What is Pleco's plans to offer a English Speech-to-Text and Mandarin Speech-to-Character add-on?
It's already available on Android as a free, built-in feature, basically because Google supports it as an integrated Android function which took us all of 10 minutes to implement.
We expect that Apple will be doing the same thing as they expand Siri support to Mandarin - already just added it for Japanese - and once they do we'll be happy to hook into that system as well. But licensing a separate system and offering it as a paid add-on doesn't really make sense given the likelihood that Apple will soon make it possible for any app to offer speech recognition of at least as good quality for free.
numble said:Does iOS let you hook into the system and change the language you want to do speech-to-text with? For instance, if my language settings are english, would an app be able to do speech to text in japanese?
pprendeville said:I'm a bit confused as to what you plan to use for your TTS. Will you use someone else's license, develop your own or use SIRI? Hopefully the one you implement will have speech that sounds natural. I think this is a priority with TTS. Also, will you need a minimum of an iPhone 4S if it's SIRI based? I've just come up with a few points which I deem are NB for good TTS.
pprendeville said:1. You can commence reading at any point in your text.
pprendeville said:2. The text being read is shown in a sub-bar underneath the main text and can be shown in character form or pinyin.
pprendeville said:3. Can open local files in Pleco and read them and offers support for .doc & .pdf along with .txt if possible.
pprendeville said:4. Offers Remote Control Support.
pprendeville said:5. Multiple voice support (male and female).