API and SDK Progress

Jesse Campbell    API/SDK, Developers    

Progress on our text to speech and speech recognition products:

iSpeech offers Text to Speech (TTS) and Automated Speech Recognition (ASR) services with over 100 TTS voices and over 25 ASR languages.

Services are supported through a cloud-based REST API and six SDKs.

We have been reading your sales inquiries as well as your technical questions on the dev forum.  Continue reading about the services we offer, recent updates, and future developments.

Free Mobile SDKs (Free API access)

Available for free and free to use in your apps.  Check out some apps already being powered by iSpeech.

• iPhone SDK (Free – Last updated: 11-02-2011)
• Android SDK (Free – Last updated: 10-13-2011)
• BlackBerry SDK (Free – Last updated: 10-14-2011)

Free Server SDKs (Paid API access) 

Available to download for free and requires purchasing prepaid API credits.

• Java SDK (Last updated: 09-07-2011)
• .NET C# SDK  (Last updated: 06-14-2011)
• PHP Beta SDK (Last updated: 10-18-2011)

Feature Roadmap

- Improved quality speech recognition
- Embedded TTS SDKs for offline use
- Language Translation API (not yet open to the public)
- Speech recognition for websites using Javascript/Flash (December) and Javascript/Java applet
- API to retrieve key properties in real-time
- API for retrieving voxemes, phonemes, and word boundaries
- Voice Effects (VST / AU)
- Fast downloads for large TTS conversions (documents) 

If you enjoyed this article please consider sharing it!