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.
@DJ.
Just to echo what David C, Dave S, and Will have just said, it's great to hear from you about this project and thanks in for looking in to this further. This would be a truly great addition to the already wonderful platform you have created.
We will give DJ time to review DNS's API and make a determination. After that point we will setup the GoFundMe account and word the description of the account as either Buy for EZ-Robot or third party app. David S will post the GoFundMe account after this determination has been made.
Sounds good to me. Cheers David.
@david
you see the people love the idea and i believe we have fast success with this Project and all our Robots can understand and speak diffrent languages better in the future.
@dave
So please check up this raiser fund konto
@DJ
nict to see you here!
@all
And hello to the new friends of the DNS Project
Supporter UpdateV2 (12 Supporter):
d.cochran Steve G Dave Schulpius fxrtst Robort-Doc OldBotBuilder Zap Brannigan Toymaker Herr Ball Aerius merne and me Rentaprinta (Boris)
I'm back. You can count me in fund the project if needed. At David thanks for bringing this subject up I think it's a great idea. I have 100% confidence if you took on the project you would complete it you have help me out in the past with many hours and asking for nothing in return. thank you .
Thank you DJ and ez-robot team
Mike, great to see you again. Thanks for supporting this. Hope everything is good. Missed having you on here.
Hello everbody,
First: i want to move this article to the top of the forum.
Second: I want to ask if there is any update:
@DJ : Do you check something with the API of DNS?
@thetechguru : Do you get any answer from your DNS Sales rep?
@d.cochran : Hi David, any news from DNS?
Boris
I haven't heard anything back from them, although I do have an update.
There is another product that I am starting once I can get my hands on Windows 10 and on Developer Studio 2015. I met with my investor to finalize some things last night. I will be purchasing DNS Developer and some other things for use with a new product that uses a lot of the EZ-AI components and some new things that I will develop. This software won't be free but EZ-AI up until version 1.0.0.8 will be free. This will incorporate some other API's that also cost money to use so we would have to charge for the use of this product. One of these is the Watson API's that were mentioned in another thread.
The agreement is that any product that uses controls that were purchased by my investor will be under the control of Cochran Robotics Inc GP, which he is a 50% partner of. I did discuss with him about having multiple versions (a free one and a paid one). The free one would demonstrate the capabilities of the product for either a limited number of transactions, or a time frame, but would allow other things that were already developed by me to be available for use for free. He was in agreement with this. It still remains to be decided what the final plan on this will be.
In any event, I will be purchasing DNS Developer and will be able to either assist or develop something that could be used with ARC. It looks like the timeframe will be sometime next month. I need to document all of the things that a new product will be able to do during the remainder of this month and come up with a look/feel of the product so, that will be my focus over the next couple of weeks. The good news though is that funding will be available to take a product from a concept through production without needed to be crowd funded.
With all of this being said, I do still strongly believe we should crowd fund the purchase of DNS Developer for EZ-Robot.