In the autumn of 2014 I got a new iPhone which had speech recognition in dutch. I was thrilled! At last I could enter text on my phone by speaking to it.
And the recognition did extremely well. I decided I wanted to combine this with my job of creating web applications. I have been doing research and development on how to effectively enter
using speech recognition, and I attained good results. I managed to speak one sentence and have items on an existing form filled with it. The software is able to recognize dates like 'Yesterday' or 'Monday last week' and convert them into a format the application will understand. Spoken numbers are converted correctly. Four languages are supported.
I showed it on conferences, but it remained my private trick.
Then after the DOAG conference in Nuremberg suddenly the idea was born: how about supplying it as a service? So another six months further here it is:
http://www.speech2form.com
At this website every one can experience how it is to fill a form by speaking. It supplies a trial form that can be run on a smartphone. iOS and Android are supported, but it might work on other smartphones too.
For developers it is possible to register and to define your own forms in a very simple way. It only takes a few minutes to define a form. You can test drive your form on Speech2form, and then copy the JavaScript code and implement it in your own web application.
It is also possible to integrate Speech2form in an app, because it can be called using a simple HTTP POST request.
