This has been brought up before is some threads, but has come up again recently. I promised that I would make a post about this so, here it goes...
There have been some posts where people have asked to be able to use Dragon Naturally Speaking (DNS) with ARC. To do this, there would have to be a separate application installed which would handle this unless there is a change to ARC itself to allow this to happen. To build an application outside of ARC to allow this would require some programming and a $2000.00 investment in the DNS developer software. To use this new tool, you would have to launch a separate application on your computer to handle speech recognition, which would pass the spoken text back to a variable in ARC. You would have to develop scripts in ARC to handle what to do with this spoken text. Another application would also need to be written that would allow the user to train DNS.
The idea of crowd funding has been brought up a few times in the past, but always in other threads that not everyone might have seen. I would like to suggest crowd funding of this idea again. It would be great if we could crowd fund the purchase of DNS Developer for EZ-Robot to add the ability to choose either DNS or Windows Speech Recognition engine directly within ARC. If that is not possible and there were enough people willing to crowd fund the purchase of DNS Developer, I would be willing to develop the 3rd party apps that could be used to handle what was described above.
This is to see how much interest there is in doing this. Please post if you would be interested in donating to this project or to donating to see if we can get this feature added directly into ARC.
One important thing to remember here. This path would only enable DNS for the applications above. It would not enable it on every application outside of these. In other words, you wouldn't have all of DNS on your machine, but only for use with ARC.
I heard from Nuanve Sales (David and DJ, I'll forward you the contact information).
Bad news, the current license is not the structure we thought it was. It is $5000 per developer and $324 per speaker, so not free distribution in your app. However, they have a totally free web based platform (similar to the PandoraBots model) that we could utilize.
I am on the train replying by phone, but when I am in front of my computer later I'll send the details.
Alan
First, thank you for the information.
The web platform costs per transaction after 1000 uses I think. The $324 per speaker is what my main fear was.
I can get my company to fund 1/2 of the developer license but, that doesn't resolve the $324 per speaker issue.
I will post a link to their cloud solution.
http://dragonmobile.nuancemobiledeveloper.com/public/index.php?task=memberServices
We would need to use the Gold level to allow the REST based communications. I dont know what the cost is there.
They are mighty proud of their stuff, but I guess they have a right to be.
The web is free for 1 million transactions per month, then is 8/10 of a cent per use. (per application, would need to dig into the docs to see if that is per instance, or all users, or if each user could sign up individually so the transactions aren't aggregate across all users).
I see the rep copied you on his response. I'll forward to DJ.
Note, although they don't advertise it, this is the same platform that runs iPhone's SIRI, as well as many companies IVRs (Amtrak, Fedex, many ohers).
I missed the gold level required for REST. Hmm, how do we handle $. 008 per transaction across multiple users. More research required.
Alan
Yes, that is the issue. I could develope something to use this but then each user would have to go in and register to use it with Nuance. I could have the key codes and other things required in a config file so that billing would just happen through them. Do you guys want me to give that a shot?
I think that makes sense, especially since they take PayPal. Each user could just pay for what they use.
Alan
I have setup an account. Waiting to see what all comes back. Seems like I wait a lot on them