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.
Hi David,
it sounds really good what you are doing.
I have no problem with a paid version, if it is not so expensive!
It also the question what this new software product can do.
Do you heard anything from DJ?
Boris
Sorry, been rewiring lights on a trailer.
@boris, I wont talk about the other product right now other than to say that it is software that is a part of something that we are manufacturing and will be selling. Sorry, I have to protect my interests in this area. I hope you understand.
@Will, The new software will be written using UWP. EZ-AI remains mine. parts of EZ-AI will be used in the other software (even maybe all of it). If there were a community funded purchase of DNS Dev, I would be able to continue development to improve the SR with EZ-AI. If not, I would just leave the SR as it is and continue development in time.
EZ-AI will remain a classic app. The new product will have software written and rewritten for it that is a uwp app. This allows me to differentiate what is owned by me and what is owned by Cochran Robotics. If there is something added to the other app that I think would be cool in EZ-AI, I will add it.
Legalities and partnerships make things more complicated for sure, but I think it will benefit both products in the long run. Anytime you write something once, you write it the second time far better. Who knows which will be worked on first vs second, but because I have a timeline in my head as to when we need to get things to market, I have a feeling that EZ-AI modifications would be second, which is a good and bad thing.
EZAI will never be a paid product, but some features of the product may require that some sort of billing is setup depending on if there are fees associated from the vendors of the apis for usage.
You would only be charged something if you used a feature (which will be identified) that required a charge. It might be that I don't include my api key for those items and require the user to get a key, which would have them then setup billing with that vendor.
Hi David,
no prob, i understand!
In the Moment i am more interessted in the DNS App.
But i hope you are also have success with your new software!
Boris
I sent another request for a quote, this time to the correct sales department. I'll let you know if I hear back from them.
After having multiple emails ignored, and then having multiple phone calls dropped before I could contact someone, I decided to see if there was a reseller locally that carried the product. I just got off the phone. He is supposed to be getting pricing information for me. I will pass this along here when and if I hear back from him.
Their customer service sounds a bit... well, rubbish. Let's see if you have some better luck with the re-seller.
Well, that was a dead end...
Here is the email I got back from him.
Hello Mr. Cochran. Thank you very much for your call regarding Dragon SDK. As a reseller of Nuance products and being certified as a trainer for NaturallySpeaking it was difficult to narrow down information regarding the SDK. I have made a few phone calls and in the meantime here is a link to a data sheet:
http://www.nuance.com/ucmprod/groups/dragon/@web-enus/documents/webasset/nc_008811.pdf
Also, this is a link to a fillable form requesting a callback for Dragon SDK.
http://www.nuance.com/dragon/contact-sdk-sales/index.htm
My apologies for not being able to supply you with more information, if some of my contacts to get back to me I will certainly pass on what I can.
Krysler Consulting is a value-added reseller of Nuance products, primarily NaturallySpeaking professional, legal, medical and premium. We have remote access capabilities and we have a certified trainer on staff. If you have any questions I will do my best to help you in any way I can.
Thank you very much for your call.