siri – Tarik Billa

Siri programming language [closed]

December 28, 2023 by Tarik

In terms of the Siri work, the direct predecessor ( http://www.sri.com/about/siri-timeline.html), the Personalized Assistant that Learns (PAL) Program, did produce an “agent-based language/framework” SPARK (not to be confused with SPARK Ada). They have publicly available documentation on it http://www.ai.sri.com/~spark/, https://pal.sri.com/CALOfiles/cstore/PAL-publications/calo/2005/IntrotoSPARK.pdf, and http://www.ai.sri.com/pubs/files/1023.pdf (and an Eclipse plugin, apparently). This is very different from a general-purpose programming … Read more

Make the `say` terminal utility and NSSpeechSynthesizer work with Siri voices

September 14, 2023 by Tarik

In a WWDC20 talk, Apple says Siri voices are not available in AVSpeechSynthesizer. The talk is called “Create a seamless speech experience in your apps.” Apparently this applies to Catalina as well. Here’s the relevant slide: I started a thread at macrumors regarding similar problems configuring the system voice to speak text.

How to use Speech Recognition inside the iOS SDK? [closed]

June 3, 2023 by Tarik

There are many libraries availble. You can use any of them. openears // This is the best library VocalKit (Deprecated for open ears) TTS ispeech (Not free) Hope it helps you. NOTE: if you download openears (which contains a sample project called “OpenEarsSampleApp”) @efimovD mentions this Check the code in view controller and you will … Read more