Google opens access to its speech recognition API

Post by bduerst » Wed, Mar 23, 2016, 10:28 PM UTC

sologoub wrote: post #6

CaveTech wrote: post #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.

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…

Post by Spooky23 » Wed, Mar 23, 2016, 10:31 PM UTC

jonknee wrote: post #10

CaveTech wrote: post #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.

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). https://developer.nuance.com/public/index.php?task=memberSer...

Post by idiot99 » Wed, Mar 23, 2016, 10:32 PM UTC

blennon wrote: post #5

This 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…

Post by tomp » Wed, Mar 23, 2016, 10:33 PM UTC

nostrademons wrote: post #34

amelius wrote: post #30

Nice. But what I want is open-source speech recognition.

Like most machine-learning applications, the source code isn't the interesting part, the data is. Google started by training on millions of phrases from Google 411, and then they've been able to continue training anytime someone issues a voice command to an Android device. They have orders of magnitude more data than you could fit into a GitHub repository.

Post by Spooky23 » Wed, Mar 23, 2016, 10:34 PM UTC

saurik wrote: post #3

I think this more directly competes with the IBM Watson speech API, not Nuance?