Llaisdy

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.