Can we use SIRI as a speech to text in our app?

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I am going to design an App for iPhone 4s where user will have Speech to text feature.

When user taps on UITextView, keyboard will open with microphone option on the left of SpaceKey.

Now my question is, Can I use that microphone option as text input for textview using speech. I dont have iPhone 4s yet, that why, I can not test it own.

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 05 '12 at 06:21

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As far as I know, there is no SIRI API available to developers yet (though there are quite a few asking for it).

answered Mar 05 '12 at 06:21

Ryan Kempt

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Yes, I know that there is no API. But microphone option is always there on Keyboard for our apps also (If I am not wrong). Then whats the use of that microphone in our apps if we can not use this as a speech to text translator. – aman Mar 05 '12 at 06:31

UIAdam · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-05T07:26:16.510

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Speech to text (i.e. the microphone next to the space bar) is a system-level keyboard feature. Any text field that uses the standard keyboard can use speech to text.

edited Mar 05 '12 at 07:26

answered Mar 05 '12 at 06:27

UIAdam

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Text to speech? I think you have mistakenly mentioned "Speech to text" with "text to speech". I am right? – aman Mar 05 '12 at 06:34

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:29

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You may use the OpenEars for such purpose.

OpenEars is an open-source iOS library for implementing round-trip English language speech recognition and text-to-speech on the iPhone and iPad.

take a look of this link.

Has good discussion regarding this topic

edited May 23 '17 at 12:29

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answered Mar 05 '12 at 07:51

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Can we use SIRI as a speech to text in our app?

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