1. Joerg Grunder
  2. PowerBuilder
  3. Tuesday, 16 April 2024 01:49 AM UTC

Hello,

maybe I'll be laughed at, but it seems to me, that I am the only guy, wanting an object, that handles speech to text-recognition.

Only that little "thing", that is on every smartphone: An Single-Line-Edit and a Microphone-icon beside to dictate google a question.

The only powerbuilder-sample I can find on the net is from chilkat, using ibm watson to perform a text to speech-translation:

https://www.example-code.com/powerbuilder/ibm_text_to_speech_v1_synthesize_audio_post.asp

Other way round: nothing. Chant activeX are not supported anymore.

 

Is this so -difficult-? -Or is it so simple, that it keeps someone busy, addressing built in functions of windows?

Why is there no custom-visual-object in the toolbar, that i can drop on my window and talk to;-)

Greetings from Germany...

Jörg

 

Miguel Leeuwe Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Tuesday, 16 April 2024 12:04 PM UTC
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  3. # 1

Hi,

I've never done this myself, but I'd recommend creating a DLL in C# and then import it using the DLL importer tool of PB.

This is quite a nice explanation, but you might find better ones: https://youtu.be/zJ-hmC3e_0s The only thing with that one is that it's not a DLL project, so you have to filter out the winforms stuff and create extra functions to send instructions and receive the text you are looking for.

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Joerg Grunder Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Wednesday, 17 April 2024 08:22 AM UTC
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  3. # 2

Well,

it is possible; no doubt.

In the end, i'm 54 and I am an architect (for houses).

Programming is my hobby and I hope, there is somenone somewhere, who puts this all together to an usabel object.

Thanks for the reply!

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John Raghanti Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Wednesday, 17 April 2024 11:47 AM UTC
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  3. # 3

Our software integrates Dragon by Nuance. The issue, I think, is that trying to write something like speech to text would be difficult. It's a trade-off between buy or build. We know that we can integrate a known solution for example in 40 hours versus planning 400 hours to build the same thing with no guarantee that it will function exactly the way we want in all situations. For the speech to text space, buying will almost always be better than building.

If you're trying to see if you can do it, that's awesome! However, most developers aren't going to try something like this without a really good reason or a nice paycheck behind it. :) Hey, you can write anything you want from the operating system up to word processors or even your own programming language. 

Good luck!

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Chris Pollach @Appeon Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Wednesday, 17 April 2024 18:31 PM UTC
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  3. # 4

Hi Joerg;

  I am not sure if this might work for Windows Apps, but this feature (voice access) might be an option. I have no idea though how that interface might work  with PB Apps and I have not tried this feature personally ... but it does say that it supports "dictation" - FYI:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/use-voice-typing-to-talk-instead-of-type-on-your-pc-fec94565-c4bd-329d-e59a-af033fa5689f

Regards ... Chris

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