Building an iOS App like Siri | Ray Wenderlich - Mozilla FireFox for eBuro Learn how to build an iOS app like Siri Siri is a voice-based personal assistant that takes voice commands and performs tasks like sending messages, making phone calls, setting alarms, searching on the web, finding directions and more. Unfortunately at the time of writing this tutorial there isn’t an official API by Apple, but there are few third party frameworks that allow developers to include functionality similar to Siri. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to use the Nuance Dragon Mobile SDK (SpeechKit), which is one of the leading frameworks in this arena. Specifically, you’ll learn: The key concepts of SpeechKit frameworkThe advantages of SpeechKit when compared to other frameworksHow to perform speech recognition and text-to-speech synthesis using SpeechKit APIs. You’ll use this knowledge to build a Siri-like application to help your users find nearby restaurants, narrowed down by cuisine or category. What is SpeechKit? The framework carries out the following processes: Getting Started
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