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Nuance, a company that plays a part in some of the most well-known speech-recognition services on the market, has unveiled its own intra-app service, called Nina.

With Nina's help, iOS and Android developers can bring speech recognition, text-to-speech, and voice biometrics to their individual applications. Nina works much in the same way as Siri, allowing users to provide voice commands that the technology then follows. And with the open software development kit, Nuance says that it can be integrated quickly into existing apps.

Nuance has played an integral role in Siri's development. Nuance provided technology to Siri before it was acquired by Apple, and according to CTO Vladimir Sejnoha in an interview with Techpinions last year, the company licenses "technology to [Apple] for a number of products." He didn't say which products are included in that arrangement.

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Aesop for Children (iOS) offers more than 140 classic fables. It's free.

Your tax dollars at work.

How better to describe Aesop for Children, a new iOS app (update: it's also available for Android, though not through Google Play) offered free by the Library of Congress?

I'm sure there's a debate to be had on whether the government should be in the app-development business, especially when there are competing commercial apps like Aesop's Wheel of Fables.

Personally, I don't mind seeing my taxes used for education, literacy, reading, and all that good stuff. But, like I said, it's open for debate.

In the meantime, let's look at the merits of the app itself. Aesop for Children includes more than 140 classic tales, each enhanced with one or more attractive illustrations and/or animations.

As e-book apps go, this one is fairly simplistic. It has no page-turning animation, no sound effects, no narration. And navigation is a bit clumsy; although it has Next and Back buttons for turning pages, the only way to return to th... [Read more]