web application frameworks for touch mobiles

pilsna — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 08:07:00 +0000

There is a lot of frameworks out there for mobile web development. Everything from WordPress plugins like wptouch to fullblown programming frameworks like the Google Web Toolkit with or without extensions like gwt-mobile-webkit.

I’d like to list the best three of the more lightweight, javascript based ones that I’ve found:

Sencha. This is the framework previously known as Ext JS. (demo)
JQTouch. This is a plugin to the popular JQuery framework. (demo)
WebApp.Net. (demo)

Are there others?

Edit: I read now that Sencha is actually a merge of not only Ext JS but also of JQTouch and vector library Raphaël. So, it seems like Sencha is the best bet right now for a mobile javascript framework.

speech recognition

pilsna — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:36:45 +0000

I have a google phone. It’s an HTC Magic. I recently updated it to version 1.6. One of the most interesting changes was that there now is a picture of a microphone next to the search box.

google voice search

When I press the microphone and say something, the software will try to recognize the words I was speaking and start a search. At the same time my girlfriend will try to pretend she has never seen me before.

Talking Twitter
http://www.hdelossantos.com/2009/10/10/talking-twitter/

RecognizerIntent
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/speech/RecognizerIntent.html

VoiceRecognition in Android

http://developer.android.com/guide/samples/ApiDemos/src/com/example/android/apis/app/VoiceRecognition.html

Exploring New Speech Recognition And Synthesis APIs In Windows Vista
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163663.aspx

Sphinx-4
http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/sphinx4/

Cairo server
http://www.speechforge.org/projects/cairo/

VoiceXML
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VoiceXML

Tellme.Studio
https://studio.tellme.com/

Create SpinVox
http://create.spinvox.com/