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Dev tools · October 2, 2018

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Voice Overlay for iOS and Android Apps

We're seeing at Algolia a lot of developers implementing speech to text in their mobile apps, but didn't see much in the way of tooling to help them do it. So we set out to fix it, and wanted to release it not just for our users, but for any devs who want to do this. iOS/Swift: https://github.com/algolia/voice-overlay-ios/ Android/Kotlin: https://github.com/algolia/voice-overlay-android/ We wanted to take away the boilerplate necessary and leave the UI and other customizations in place. We've been looking forward to sharing this…

Voice Overlay for iOS and Android Apps launched on October 2, 2018 with 15 votes, #970 of 2,827 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.

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Voice Overlay for iOS and Android Apps is an open-source library that enables developers to add speech-to-text functionality to mobile applications. Available for both iOS with Swift and Android with Kotlin, it provides pre-built UI components and customization options while eliminating repetitive boilerplate code. Designed for any developer building voice input features, it reduces implementation complexity and speeds up development time.

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We're seeing at Algolia a lot of developers implementing speech to text in their mobile apps, but didn't see much in the way of tooling to help them do it. So we set out to fix it, and wanted to release it not just for our users, but for any devs who want to do this. iOS/Swift…

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