Cupcake: Speech technology on Android
Tuesday, 27th January, 2009
In mid-December 2008 Google announced cupcake, an update to the Android platform. Here are some brief comments:
- One of the new features listed under Framework is “Simplified SREC speech recognition API available”.
- In the project layout srec is listed as an external project.
- It’s in the source here.
- The source is copyright Nuance and released under the Apache license. Here is an example copyright header (from AcousticModels.c):
/*---------------------------------------------------------------------------* * AcousticModels.c * * * * Copyright 2007, 2008 Nuance Communciations, Inc. * * * * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 'License'); * * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. * * * * You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * * distributed under the License is distributed on an 'AS IS' BASIS, * * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * * limitations under the License. * * * *---------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
- As far as I can tell, there’s no discussion of srec on android-beginners or android-developers. According to Dave Sparks on android-developers (Jan 20), “We haven’t released a Cupcake SDK yet. Docs will come when the SDK is published.” I’ll keep you posted.
- n.b.: Text-to-speech is available on Andriod, using the eyes-free TTS library.