Simon MacDonald

Simon MacDonald
Advisory Software Engineer, IBM

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Simon MacDonald is an Advisory Software Engineer in IBM’s Emerging Internet Technologies Group. Simon has over fifteen years of development experience and has worked on a variety of projects including object oriented databases, police communication systems, speech recognition and unified messaging. His current focus is contributing to the open source PhoneGap project to enable developers to create cross platform mobile applications using Web technologies. Simon’s been building web applications since the days they were written using shell scripts and he still has nightmares about those dark days.

Sessions

2:30pm Wednesday, 07/18/2012
Speech Enabling Android Applications
Mobile
 Location: F150
Tags: android, mobile, mobile_app_development
Simon MacDonald (IBM), Bryce Curtis (IBM)
Average rating: ****.
(4.20, 5 ratings)
Learn about the android.speech package and enable Speech Recognition and Text to Speech functionality in your Android apps today. This presentation will give a brief overview of the basics and best practices of Speech Recognition. Then we will quickly put together an application using Speech Recognition for input and TTS for output that can answer almost any question you put to it.  Read more.

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