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Tutorials, demos, and code walkthroughs for a wide variety of real-time web, mobile, and IoT projects.

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BuildNov 16, 2016

AT&T Flow Designer + PubNub: Seamless IoT Dev and Deployment

AT&T Flow Designer is an intuitive visual tool that makes it easy to design, prototype, and deploy IoT solutions. With this web-based tool you can visually create and connect multiple data sources, cloud services, and embedded devices. With AT&T’s expansive broadband network and focus on IoT,...
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
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BuildNov 16, 2016

Detect and Filter Profanity in a Real-time Chat App

We’d like to introduce you to one of our BLOCKS partners, Neutrino API. Neutrino provides a variety of useful web services and tools for web developers, like phone and email validate, image resizing, IP geolocation, and in this tutorial’s case – detecting and filtering profanity. We’ll...
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
BuildNov 15, 2016

Real-time Image Analysis & Feature Detection with Clarifai

Developers and consumers, get ready! The world of Artificial Intelligence is exploding. As the amount of compute power available to developers increases and the underlying technology of AI advances in leaps and bounds, we are seeing more and more applications of artificial intelligence in daily life....
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
BuildNov 9, 2016

Add Voice Commands in a Web Application

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...
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
BuildNov 7, 2016

Overview of Dictation in Real time Web Applications

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...
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
BuildOct 26, 2016

Enable Text-To-Speech in Real time Apps in 70 Lines of Code

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...
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
BuildOct 24, 2016

4 Noteworthy Voice-Enabled Technology Stacks

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...
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
BuildOct 19, 2016

Building a Dash Cam with Raspberry Pi, JavaScript

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,...
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
BuildOct 18, 2016

Easily Build Voice-Enabled Apps with Twitter Fabric, Digits

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...
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll