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Hello, and welcome back to our series on Voice Activation in Real time web applications. In the previous articles we looked at an overview of voice technology, created a webapp with text to speech using AngularJS, then added speech recognition support. In this article, we will add Siri-like voice commands...

Hello, and welcome back to our series on Voice Activation in Real time web applications. In this article, we will add dictation (speech-to-text) in our real-time AngularJS web application with just 79 lines of HTML and JavaScript. Services and products such as Amazon Echo, Siri and Google Now use speech...

Hello, and welcome back to our series on Voice Activation in Real time web applications. In this article, we dive into a simple example of how to enable text-to-speech in a real-time AngularJS web application with just 70 lines of HTML and JavaScript. This application lets the user type in a message...

Over the past few years, there has been increasing attention placed into speech and voice enabling technologies, whether for convenience, accessibility, or safety/hands-free driving and machine operation. As devices such as Amazon Echo that operate entirely through voice control gain popularity, user...

Dash cams have become very popular in the last few years. They even captured a giant meteor in Russia a few years ago. Seriously, a meteor! Why are they so popular? They are both useful and pretty simple. So simple, in fact, you can build your very own using JavaScript, a Raspberry Pi and some UI code,...

Hello, and welcome back to our series on Android development with Fabric and PubNub! In previous articles, we’ve shown how to create a powerful chat app with Android, Fabric, and Digits. In this blog entry, we highlight 2 key technologies, Twitter Fabric (mobile development toolkit) and Nuance...

As a city dweller, this definitely falls in the category of #firstworldproblems. Do I wait for the bus, hail a taxi, or call an Uber? I thought it would be neat to solve this problem using PubNub’s Project EON on the mobile platform (in this case, Android, because I had already used EON on iOS in a past...

Welcome back! In the previous article, we explored smart home automation via a garage door opener service using LiftMaster, PubNub, and Node.js. The context is the growing popularity of two main areas, the Smart Car and Smart Home. Integration of Smart Home door and access control seems like a natural...

Have you ever wanted to design your own programming language? It seems like such fun, but if you’ve ever tried you probably got stuck right around the time you read “LLR Decent Parsers and Abstract Syntax Trees.” Traditionally designing your own language was hard because it requires a very specialized...