On 8 April 2013 07:47, Kevin Brubeck Unhammer <[email protected]> wrote: > Mikel Artetxe <[email protected]> writes: >> As for Google Translate's app integrating better in Android, it is >> true that it has some great features that Apertium's app misses. >> Implementing some of them (like offline OCR[1], which was suggested >> during last GSoC) would be nice and relatively easy, but some others >> (like TTS or voice recognition, at least for all the minor languages >> that Apertium supports) would probably be unachievable for us. > > Doesn't Android come with some recognition and TTS built-in?
Kind of, but the ASR is pretty limited (command and control only), and there are either no tools available for adapting the language data, or the tools are only available as Windows binaries (and even then, you don't get the full set of tools). The ASR most people think of when they think of Android is a proprietary Google-branded add-on, and maybe they've added an offline mode in more recent versions, but it at least used to be true that it did nothing more than record a sound file and send it to a Google server to be processed (there's equivalent code in the Chrome tree. It's really not interesting). -- <Sefam> Are any of the mentors around? <jimregan> yes, they're the ones trolling you ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Minimize network downtime and maximize team effectiveness. Reduce network management and security costs.Learn how to hire the most talented Cisco Certified professionals. Visit the Employer Resources Portal http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/employer_resources/index.html _______________________________________________ Apertium-stuff mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/apertium-stuff
