OpenEars®: add speech recognition and TTS to your app

OpenEars® is the most popular free iOS offline speech recognition/TTS framework, and the basis for the OpenEars® Platform, a plugin system that lets you drag-and-drop new speech features into your iOS app: realtime recognition, better TTS, fast grammars and noise rejection. Its speech recognition works with 6 languages! Try it in 5 minutes with the OpenEars® Quickstart Tutorial.

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NeatSpeech: better, faster voices for OpenEars™

NeatSpeech is a plugin for OpenEars® which adds improved voices which sound better and speak continuously without lag even on very long statements, no network needed. Transparently priced for your peace of mind. Try NeatSpeech and the other OpenEars® plugins in 5 minutes with the OpenEars® Quickstart Tutorial. Now with US and UK English and Spanish!

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RapidEars: live speech recognition at gaming speeds

RapidEars is a plugin for OpenEars® which lets it do live, offline speech recognition in realtime that is so responsive it can even be used as a gaming input, and it can be used with all the languages OpenEars is compatible with. You can try out RapidEars and the other OpenEars® plugins in just 5 minutes using the OpenEars® Quickstart Tutorial. RapidEars: try doing that over the network!

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Rejecto: ignore speech that isn’t in your app’s vocabulary

Rejecto is a plugin for OpenEars® which lets OpenEars® and RapidEars ignore speech that isn’t in the vocabulary. This makes OpenEars® and RapidEars more accurate and discerning, and it can be used with all the languages OpenEars is compatible with. You can try it and the other OpenEars® plugins in just 5 minutes using the OpenEars® Quickstart Tutorial.

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RuleORama: create grammars fast enough for RapidEars

RuleORama is a plugin for OpenEars® which creates rules-based grammars using the same API as OpenEars’ dynamic grammar generation, but the grammars are fast enough for RapidEars to use, and it can be used with all the languages OpenEars is compatible with. You can try it and the other OpenEars® plugins in just 5 minutes using the OpenEars® Quickstart Tutorial.

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The OpenEars Plugins

THE OPENEARS PLATFORM

OpenEars™

OpenEars™ is the most popular free offline speech recognition & TTS framework on iOS, and the basis for the OpenEars™ Platform. Now works with six different languages including Chinese!
RuleORama

RuleORama is a plugin for OpenEars™ which creates rules-based grammars that let you define precise rules for which words and phrases can be recognized in what order, fast enough for RapidEars
RapidEars

RapidEars is a plugin for OpenEars™ which lets it do live, offline speech recognition in realtime that is so responsive it can be used as a gaming input
NeatSpeech

NeatSpeech is a plugin for OpenEars™ which adds improved voices which sound better and speak continuously with almost no lag even on extremely long statements
Rejecto

Rejecto is a plugin for OpenEars™ which lets OpenEars™ and RapidEars ignore speech that isn’t in the vocabulary

Our Flying Friends Blog

Halle's latest posts about OpenEars, speech recognition, and Core Audio.

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