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.
Thanks for the update David. It sounds like you've got big and exciting things planned for EZ-AI. Great to hear and wish you luck with it. I'll be watching this space for your progress, and to see what Alan and DJ find out in regards to DNS.
So, first, congrats on the exciting progress with your start up business. Your talents deserve rewards and I'm sure you will succeed.
Second, for clarity; What I read you saying is that any product coming from you that would use the DNS through ARC like the 3rd party app we were discussing will now have to charge to use. Am I mis-reading this? If this is correct then the only option we now have for DNS support for no charge is if DJ decides to incorporate it nativity into ARC. I also note you are willing to assist DJ with development if he asks you.
If this is correct I'm not sure how to feel about your decision. I guess I cant blame you and your partner to try to make a product that would be in demand and will raise money and support to push it forward. However on the other hand I feel kinda abandoned and turned into a revenue source. If DJ decides he doesn't want to move forward we're screwed unless we buy from you.
Please correct me if I've mis-understood your new position. I'll gladly edit my comments to remove any concerns or qustions about your motives.
Hey David,
So here are my thoughts. There would be a use for multiple copies of dns developer as I will be bringing on another developer. If crowd funding happened and DJ were to decide to not add it to ARC, I could use this other licence (crowd funded one) to develop the application (ARC to DNS bridge) we had discussed earlier without making it property of cochran robotics, and thus avoid any issues that I might run into.
The same offer still stands. I am willing to develop a tool that could be used with ARC for DNS. I would just be careful to avoid any issues with legalities and all.
Btw, this would be free to use as it wouldn't fall under the partnership and would be developed using tools not purchased by the partnership.
No need to edit post. These are very valid concerns.
One more thing. I do believe that DJ would add this to ARC because it expands the features of this product especially where IOS and Android are concerned, but also the windows based ARC. I don't think that I would be the one developing this and I do believe that it will be purchased for ez-robot ultimately. This is the path that has the best logical outcome. I haven't had any discussions with DJ that makes me believe this. It is only based on what I believe he will do.
@DavidC. Understood and I respectfully thank you for making this clear enough for me to understand. Thank you for standing by your word. That shows integrity, good moral strength and direction. This is huge and becoming more rare in today's world. I'll continue to support you and EZ Robot any way I can.
I wish I was as sure as you are that DJ will support DNS. He's a busy guy with busy people working for him. There are a lot of roadblocks I can see that would make it hard for him to implement this.
@David C.
I just wanted to echo what Dave S just said. Fair play to you sir.
David,
Do you have a time line as to the evolvement of EZ-AI? I think I understand that EZ-AI is a part of the whole with products you are developing with this investor. Will it take a back burner for now and developed later as a paid product?