How often in software development do you think about rewriting some 3rd party module from scratch? The popular vision of the problem says that we should not reinvent a wheel and use existing paid or free components. That is right in general. How often something existing exactly fits needs of your project? From my experience, I would say, “never”, especially if we are talking about some complicated UI elements. If my post is too long for you, you now can…
We have been delivering software development services at Kvinivel for more than 8 years. During this time, I learned one interesting thing. We tried different kinds of cooperation namely outstaffing, outsourcing, some mixed things, time and material, fixed price, and some very customized billing schemes. Several years ago, I realized that a complete development cycle with a fixed price is the most efficient scheme for us and for our clients. This remains true even considering that we mostly work on…
Posting a link to a small demo application on GitHub to continue my previous post. The application is working as a dictation tool. To start the application, click the start button, then put focus on some text editor and start talking. To make it work, register a free account in IBM Cloud (https://cloud.ibm.com) then create Speech To Text service at (https://cloud.ibm.com/catalog/services/speech-to-text). Then just put your API key to the corresponding field in the application. The application is made…
Modern web applications are full of rich features. What about stream voice recognition? Not there is no "HTMLvnext" feature for voice recognition, but there are different services like AWS Transcribe, IBM Watson, and Google Speech to text. All services seem to be very good, they at least can handle my English with East-Ukrainian accent very well. But one thing makes IBM Watson special, it supports WebSockets, so you can stream directly from the browser without sending a stream to your…
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How often in software development do you think about rewriting some 3rd party module from scratch? The popular vision of the problem says that we should not reinvent a wheel and use existing paid or free components. That is right in general. How often something existing exactly fits needs of your project? From my experience, I would say, “never”, especially if we are talking about some complicated UI elements. If my post is too long for you, you now can…
We have been delivering software development services at Kvinivel for more than 8 years. During this time, I learned one interesting thing. We tried different kinds of cooperation namely outstaffing, outsourcing, some mixed things, time and material, fixed price, and some very customized billing schemes. Several years ago, I realized that a complete development cycle with a fixed price is the most efficient scheme for us and for our clients. This remains true even considering that we mostly work on…
Posting a link to a small demo application on GitHub to continue my previous post. The application is working as a dictation tool. To start the application, click the start button, then put focus on some text editor and start talking. To make it work, register a free account in IBM Cloud (https://cloud.ibm.com) then create Speech To Text service at (https://cloud.ibm.com/catalog/services/speech-to-text). Then just put your API key to the corresponding field in the application. The application is made…
Modern web applications are full of rich features. What about stream voice recognition? Not there is no "HTMLvnext" feature for voice recognition, but there are different services like AWS Transcribe, IBM Watson, and Google Speech to text. All services seem to be very good, they at least can handle my English with East-Ukrainian accent very well. But one thing makes IBM Watson special, it supports WebSockets, so you can stream directly from the browser without sending a stream to your…