You could SiriProxy (https://github.com/plamoni/SiriProxy) as input to this to handle to speech-to-text part
I'm running this at home and it works great for adding custom actions to Siri
I'm running this at home and it works great for adding custom actions to Siri
But to give the authors their credit back, it's not what I guessed. It's much more a GUI around a complex toolset that would require you to dig deep into mudwater, bad docs etc. So, yes it makes life easier and sense to use this in your app. I have not evaluated the quality of their service yet, but it's a Startup, it's not going to stop improving (hopefully) :)
(Google/Apple are essentially powered by "Nuance", but with different qualities of training-data.)
More NLP/AI Startups and more colloboration on HN please!
2cents: I hope people don't sell to their first working protoype to the Google/Apple/Microsoft Empire, but try to get big on with friendly startup-colloboration and with the help of investors/angels.