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Just one last quick note that Swift 3 support for OpenEars and all of its plugins is complete: you can now use a Swift 3 sample app found in the main distribution, or use custom Swift 3 tutorials for OpenEars or any of its plugins, and as of today, the downloadable and online documentation for […]
Greetings, This is just a quick second update that the second part of Swift 3 support is complete: the OpenEars distribution now has a complete Swift 3 version of the sample app for you to work with and it has a complete Swift 3 custom tutorial tool. You can download the sample app at https://www.politepix.com/openears […]
Greetings, This is just a quick update that the first part of Swift 3 support is complete: the OpenEars distribution now has a complete Swift 3 version of the sample app for you to work with. You can download it at https://www.politepix.com/openears and the Swift 3 sample app is found in the folder titled OpenEarsSampleAppSwift […]
UPDATE: Swift 3 support is now available. Hello again! I wanted to share some information about OpenEars Platform Swift support. I like Swift, and OpenEars works well with Swift (there are self-supported discussions in the OpenEars forums on how to use OpenEars with Swift and I’ve heard of no issues related to the framework – […]
¿Qué Hay De Nuevo? After a just-slightly-longer-than-expected incubation period (ahem), it is my pleasure to introduce OpenEars 2.5: Hear All The Languages. Image by Allie Brosh Well, perhaps not all of the languages. Many of the languages! I’ve developed a language-agnostic grapheme-to-phoneme algorithm which works from a file format fast enough for a phone, and […]
Today I’m happy to announce that OpenEars 2.04 and all plugins are out now. This is primarily a bugfix release to reduce memory overhead in OEPocketsphinxController and RapidEars while listening, and to prevent a very rare crash that could happen when stopping listening with RapidEars when a lattice search is still working. However there is […]
Today I am very pleased to be able to announce the shipping of OpenEars 2.0, and the entire OpenEars plugin platform 2.0. If you are a licensed user, this is a free upgrade for you. Links and the upgrade guide can be found at the bottom of this post if you want to jump down […]
When I was but a wee geeklet, my hands-down favorite museum was the Boston Museum of Science, Where It’s Fun to Find Out.1 Although “Delightful” may not be the most common response to “Early-80s Boston” on a word association test2, the Museum of Science was a garden of both earthly and unearthly delights. There was […]
Last September I was at iOSDevUK, which is a lovely iOS developer conference on the Welsh coast at the University of Aberystwyth, and a friend asked me what the next feature for OpenEars would be after Spanish support. I said that before I added anything else, I needed to get rid of technical debt and […]
I’m happy to announce the release of OpenEars 1.66 featuring a number of helpful fixes affecting both stock OpenEars and also Rejecto and NeatSpeech: • A fix to the order of the Spanish lookup dictionary that could affect accuracy • Improvements to the fixes to voice audio detection from 1.65 • A fix for an […]
