OK, where's our talking apps??

[Ric Moore]

On 07/24/2012 05:34 AM, Amedee Van Gasse wrote:

<snippage>

> I'm sorry Ric, but speech technology is actually *very* hard and what you
> now know as Siri is the result of over 20 years of research in artificial
> intelligence, originally intended as a military project for a smart
> soldier's assistant. And most of the technology is really not open source
> and heavy encumbered by patents.
>
>
> But did you have a technical support question or did you just want to
> rant? ;-)

Both! If SIRI can run on a stinkin' cell phone, is there something in 
the works for us?? Again, the Unity scheme seems to be made for it's 
usage and I keep expecting to see it happen. It's just lacking it.

Funny thing that if the taxpayers paid for it's initial development, I 
would like to think that either we get paid back from the profits on it, 
or it become open source.

I know, I really don't live in this world. I'll go and check out Iris to 
see what is what. This is just a general shout-out to see if anyone 
knows if anything like it is coming down the pike. Ubuntu would become 
really kEwL over night. :) Ric



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