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chanux
Take OCR from one app, voice recognition from another, and a third super power from a third app, and you have yourself a new service.

Only if all those three external apps are happy with your app. (According to past experience)

danielharan
This is a large part of what has sucked about APIs. Before Google Maps, I had to wait days to get a quote on Google and Mapquest services. And with Google Maps, you still had an insane TOS with bizarre caps and no way to pay for it. There was a way to be technically loosely joined, but not legally / business-wise.
d_c
What are you using for OCR?

I can imagine the fanciful graphics of such menus often make it harder to convert them to text.