[Aaron Bitler] and [Bud Townsend] have been working a natural user system that is, in their own words, “what android@home must have been.”
The video they posted is pretty impressive. The automation system responds to voice and can control appliances, ‘throw a party’, and supply a user with their location. This is just the foundation of a system that can be built upon – developers can easily integrate a microphone and speaker into a device so it can connect to the system’s server. Apps, too, are pretty extensible – they’re registered on the server with meta identifies that supply a wealth of data to be manipulated. It’s a very, very cool project that we really want to try out.
After seeing the video, the first thought was to go through every episode of star trek collecting recordings of [Majel Barrett’s] speech. [Douglas Rain] is still alive (and still sounds like HAL), but we’d probably opt for GLaDOS. If our house is going to kill us anyway, we’ll opt for the one that will give us some blog cred.
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