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Offline Gerhman

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Symbian dictation input
« on: November 17, 2012, 08:37:32 am »
Hi, I am working on a dictation text input method for Symbian, I have already manged to implement a button that will appear above the virtual keyboard when it opens and I have implemented a way of typing text from a string. All I have left to do is implement voice recognition and give the app a name. For voice recognition I have come across a semi-api from google which apparently works but all audio has to be uploaded in FLAC format and I have not yet managed to compile libflac for Symbian so that I can convert wave to flac. If any of you could give me some guidance on this it will be greatly appreciated and if you want I could possibly reward you in a way of your choice!

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Re: Symbian dictation input
« Reply #1 on: November 18, 2012, 04:32:17 pm »
Hi, I've created the app "Dictate" that makes use of Google's ASR system. Up to now, the app is a virtual assistant, but my aim is even to
allow people speak their text and write it on the System Keyboard Screen. If you want, we can try a collaboration, in order to implement the 2 apps in one platform that can give the user the power to Speak Strings (via Dictate system) and automatically insert it in System Keyboard forms (your app)
Please let me know about it,
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Re: Symbian dictation input
« Reply #2 on: November 18, 2012, 05:07:24 pm »
Yes I think that could work very nicely, how do you think we should approach this?

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Re: Symbian dictation input
« Reply #3 on: November 18, 2012, 06:01:35 pm »
First of all, what SDK and programming language are you using to build your Project? I'm using Qt/Qml.
2)If they're not the same, I think we should make apps interact by creating a tcpSocket throught which apps share data like: "start recognition"; "finish recognition->resulting text" etc.

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Re: Symbian dictation input
« Reply #4 on: November 18, 2012, 07:43:40 pm »
The floating button and key simulation are both implemented with Symbian C++ but that can easily be used in a Qt project. I think we should somehow create only one app, possibly we can just use your app and then integrate add my code. For it to work properly I think we will need to create a background task invisible to the task manager that can be launched from the main app. Maybe we should create a closed repository? Also maybe we should use email communication instead?

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Re: Symbian dictation input
« Reply #5 on: November 18, 2012, 09:23:38 pm »
Perfect, I think the same.
My email is: visual1993@gmail.com , we can continue the conversation there

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Re: Symbian dictation input
« Reply #6 on: November 19, 2012, 01:11:14 am »
Perfect, I think the same.
My email is: visual1993@gmail.com , we can continue the conversation there
You can just continue it here, that's the point of the forum.