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I'm happy for your success, but as a developer, having one app for each of {French, German, Swedish} sounds like spam. It reminds me of "auto wallpaper" apps or

I'm happy for your success, but as a developer, having one app for each of {French, German, Swedish} sounds like spam. It reminds me of "auto wallpaper" apps or the like. The actual question of course is: how does establishing a unifying brand fare compared with a bazillion of generic apps?

gte910h 14y ago
Unfortunately the search algorithms/hotlists work much better for separate editions then unified editions of many things.
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PierreA 14y ago
another point for localization : I can sell an app at a higher price in France (tier 4) because of the euros rate. tier 4 in france is a little bit like tier 3 in the US (eg 3$ in the US and 3.5 euros in France - it was 3 euros before Apple updated their price). In Sweden, where there is less competition I can set the price to tier 5. In the English market (which is 73% of my income), all the apps are $3 (except today).
PierreA 14y ago
and actually for the Word Wizard app, I can't release a single app with all languages because it uses a text to speech engine and each voice is 90M ! In addition, due to the contract I have with the text to speech company, I can't release an app with several languages...
- danielharan 14y ago
  How many words do you have in total? Is it possible to record most or some of them? 90M is a lot; maybe we could work something out? :)
  - PierreA 14y ago
    text to speech engines do not work like this. They built the pronunciations of any words on the fly using their phonetic sound library. so 90M is for the sound library I think
    - danielharan 14y ago
      If you had 2-300 words, it would be much cheaper to just record the words. Otherwise, if it's still just dictionary words, it's just a lot easier if the dictionary already breaks down the word into phonemes, and the speech engine then collates the phoneme sounds together. You're not actually using most of the features of a text-to-speech engine, so I don't see why you'd have to pay for the full price tag. So: how many words? And what's a price that would make you want to buy a license to a simpler engine? :)
- danielharan 14y ago
  Looked it up some more; most of the difficulty of speech-to-text engines are text normalization and converting words into sounds. Since you only have dictionary words, you might be able to use a phonetic dictionary. Wikipedia and discussions with another techie friend: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_synthesis#Challenges http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_synthesis#Challenges

gte910h 14y ago

Unfortunately the search algorithms/hotlists work much better for separate editions then unified editions of many things.

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PierreA 14y ago

another point for localization : I can sell an app at a higher price in France (tier 4) because of the euros rate. tier 4 in france is a little bit like tier 3 in the US (eg 3$ in the US and 3.5 euros in France - it was 3 euros before Apple updated their price). In Sweden, where there is less competition I can set the price to tier 5. In the English market (which is 73% of my income), all the apps are $3 (except today).

PierreA 14y ago

and actually for the Word Wizard app, I can't release a single app with all languages because it uses a text to speech engine and each voice is 90M ! In addition, due to the contract I have with the text to speech company, I can't release an app with several languages...

danielharan 14y ago
How many words do you have in total? Is it possible to record most or some of them? 90M is a lot; maybe we could work something out? :)
- PierreA 14y ago
  text to speech engines do not work like this. They built the pronunciations of any words on the fly using their phonetic sound library. so 90M is for the sound library I think
  - danielharan 14y ago
    If you had 2-300 words, it would be much cheaper to just record the words. Otherwise, if it's still just dictionary words, it's just a lot easier if the dictionary already breaks down the word into phonemes, and the speech engine then collates the phoneme sounds together. You're not actually using most of the features of a text-to-speech engine, so I don't see why you'd have to pay for the full price tag. So: how many words? And what's a price that would make you want to buy a license to a simpler engine? :)
danielharan 14y ago
Looked it up some more; most of the difficulty of speech-to-text engines are text normalization and converting words into sounds. Since you only have dictionary words, you might be able to use a phonetic dictionary. Wikipedia and discussions with another techie friend: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_synthesis#Challenges http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_synthesis#Challenges