Author: Sami Ekblad
Adding speech recognition to Vaadin apps
Our previous blog post added wake word detection for a Vaadin application using Picovoice. That is a robust in-browser approach to creating always-listening apps. You might want to use that for full speech recognition, but the draft standard web speech API also provides a way to voice-enable ...
Always-Listening Voice Commands for Vaadin web applications
Make your Vaadin web application more user-friendly and accessible with always-listening voice commands! With this quick 15-minute tutorial, you can integrate voice commands like "Alexa," "Hey Siri," and "Computer" into your application using the Picovoice Porcupine Wake Word Engine. Create a ...
Announcing the Collaboration Kit Challenge winners
Today we are pleased to announce our Collaboration Kit Challenge winners! After careful consideration and evaluation, the jury selected the top three designs based on originality, effort, and design criteria. Each submission demonstrated high skill and creativity, making the selection process ...
Vaadin Add-on Directory gets a new search interface
The new version of the Vaadin Add-on Directory is live! For those using Vaadin and add-ons daily, this is not anything new. It has been in public beta for over six months, and you have likely tried it out already. But if you are new to Vaadin, or haven’t really paid attention to the work of the ...
Vaadin Office Hours - Your live Vaadin FAQ
Have you heard of the Vaadin Office Hours? We have regularly organized live Q&A sessions for all Vaadin users over the past couple of months. These have turned out successful. So far, we have discussed over fifty different topics together with 148 community members. The Vaadin Office Hours is ...
Vaadin Collaboration Kit challenges you to win
I'm happy to announce the Vaadin Collaboration Kit Application Challenge launch, an app design and programming competition. This challenge aims to design and build an application using the Vaadin Collaboration Kit. The application should solve a real-world problem, which could be anything from ...
Vaadin and remote code injection in Log4j
You should have heard about the log4j security issue by now. Vaadin or typical Vaadin applications are not affected by the recent log4j vulnerabilities (CVE-2021-44228 and CVE-2021-45046). But we felt that it is important to summarize and reflect what these vulnerabilities may mean for Vaadin ...
Developer Experience at Vaadin
Have you felt frustrated about something lately and think that the problem is with Vaadin? Ok, we’d like to help you with that. Before we can make things better, we first need to know what you think. As a developer, what is your experience with Vaadin? We invite you to tell us, either through ...
Vaadin Pro available for students
The best way to learn to code is by coding. Vaadin is open source and free to use for any kind of web applications. In addition to this, we offer professional web developers Vaadin Pro, which adds more tools and components to increase productivity. We don’t want the price to prevent you from using ...