Google opens access to its speech recognition API
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Google opens access to its speech recognition API
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Re: Google opens access to its speech recognition API
#2Key sentence:
> The Google Cloud Speech API, which will cover over 80 languages and will work with any application in real-time streaming or batch mode, will offer full set of APIs for applications to “see, hear and translate,” Google says.
Re: Google opens access to its speech recognition API
#3I think this more directly competes with the IBM Watson speech API, not Nuance?
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#4> To attract developers, the app will be free at launch with pricing to be introduced at a later date.
Doesn't this mean you could spend time developing and building on the platform without knowing if your application is economically feasible? Seems like a huge risk to take for anything other than a hobby project.
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#5This is HUGE in my opinion. Prior to this, in order to get near state-of-the-art speech recognition in your system/application you either had to have/hire expertise to build your own or pay Nuance a significant amount of money to use theirs. Nuance has always been a "big bad" company in my mind. If I recall correctly, they've sued many of their smaller competitors out of existence and only do expensive enterprise deals. I'm glad their near monopoly is coming to an end.
I think Google's API will usher in a lot of new innovative applications.
Re: Google opens access to its speech recognition API
#6> To attract developers, the app will be free at launch with pricing to be introduced at a later date. Doesn't this mean you could spend time developing and building on the platform without knowing if your application is economically feasible? Seems like a huge risk to take for anything other than a hobby project.
I was really hoping they would post at least a preview of what the pricing will be.
AppEngine pricing change resulted in a nasty surprise for a lot of people and a lot of vitriol towards Google. Just one article on this from many: http://readwrite.com/2011/09/02/google-app-engine-pricing-an...
While the platform has moved way ahead of where it was in 2011, the memory of this is still in the back of people's mind and it would be a good move on Google's part to at least try to engender more trust by giving directional pricing.
Re: Google opens access to its speech recognition API
#7This is HUGE in my opinion. Prior to this, in order to get near state-of-the-art speech recognition in your system/application you either had to have/hire expertise to build your own or pay Nuance a significant amount of money to use theirs. Nuance has always been a "big bad" company in my mind. If I recall correctly, they've sued many of their smaller competitors out of existence and only do expensive enterprise dea…
Interesting - I saw this as a defensive response to the rising number of developers using Amazon's Alexa APIs, rather than anything related to Nuance.
Re: Google opens access to its speech recognition API
#8> To attract developers, the app will be free at launch with pricing to be introduced at a later date. Doesn't this mean you could spend time developing and building on the platform without knowing if your application is economically feasible? Seems like a huge risk to take for anything other than a hobby project.
If (for any reasonably probable value of final pricing) the cost of voice recognition is a material factor in determining whether the application is economically feasible, you have larger problems. In other words: if your application's economics are going to swing materially depending on how this is priced, it's probably not going to work out even if they keep it free.
Re: Google opens access to its speech recognition API
#9I think this more directly competes with the IBM Watson speech API, not Nuance?
Not sure how many users of IBM speech API but Nuance is big in this area (also offers offline conversion products)
Re: Google opens access to its speech recognition API
#10> To attract developers, the app will be free at launch with pricing to be introduced at a later date. Doesn't this mean you could spend time developing and building on the platform without knowing if your application is economically feasible? Seems like a huge risk to take for anything other than a hobby project.
Only if you spend a huge amount of time integrating with their API. It won't be more expensive than Nuance, so prepare with their pricing in mind and you'll be fine ($.008 / transaction over 20k monthly transactions).
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