Android Quickstart - Firebase

Android Quickstart - Firebase:



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How to change the language on Android at runtime

How to change the language on Android at runtime and don’t go mad: "setLocales "



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Chat SDK for Android - Open Source Mobile Messenger

GitHub - chat-sdk/chat-sdk-android: Chat SDK Android - Open Source Mobile Messenger: "Chat SDK for Android"



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QnA Maker - the easy way to create a BOT

Build, train and publish a simple question and answer bot based on FAQ URLs, structured documents or editorial content in minutes.
QnA Maker:



great video tutorial

http://www.garypretty.co.uk/2017/01/17/qna-maker-dialog-for-bot-framework/

ngrok - secure tunnels to localhost

ngrok - secure introspectable tunnels to localhost:


to work with your local IIS EXPRESS under visual studio use this:

ngrok http -host-header="localhost:58821" 58821

where 58821 is your port number

more details - how to use ngrok with windows and visual studio to test webhooks

Creating Bots Using Microsoft Bot Framework in C#

official bot framework site from MS - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/bot-framework/

Creating Bots Using Microsoft Bot Framework in C# - Microsoft Virtual Academy:

bot-framework-without-azure-possible


great starter video
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgF-CyaX1p3FE55OTRNH-kOb16zqeBZCo

BOT samples 

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/bot-framework/dotnet/bot-builder-dotnet-proactive-messages 

BOT Proactive Message - samples

Android Speech Recognition - RecognitionListener

Android Speech Recognition Without Dialog In A Custom Activity - Truiton: "Speech Recognition"



a simple working sample could be found here

android-speech-recognizer-sample

good hint to make it like 'real time'
android-recognitionlistener-live-speech-to-text-preview

Google Speech API

Great service from google to transcript sound into text.
an easy way to use curl command below.

open command shell (cmd on windows)
set your google  API_KEY

set API_KEY=xxxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxx

request.json file should contains such data

{
  "config": {
      "encoding":"FLAC",
      "sampleRateHertz": 16000,
      "languageCode": "en-US",
      "enableWordTimeOffsets": false
  },
  "audio": {
      "uri":"gs://cloud-samples-tests/speech/brooklyn.flac"
  }
}

run the command to get response

curl -s -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" --data-binary @request.json "https://speech.googleapis.com/v1/speech:recognize?key=%API_KEY%"

for long file (above 1 minute )use such command
curl -s -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" --data-binary @request.json "https://speech.googleapis.com/v1/speech:longrunningrecognize?key=%API_KEY%"

you will get response such as
{
  "name": "9111777455024812345"
}

use the name value to get result of the long process

curl -s -X GET  "https://speech.googleapis.com/v1/operations/9111777455024812345?key=%API_KEY%"

more info :
https://cloud.google.com/speech/docs/getting-started
https://codelabs.developers.google.com/codelabs/cloud-speech-intro/index.html#0