OK, where's our talking apps??

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Amedee Van Gasse
<amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be> wrote:
>
> On Wed, July 25, 2012 00:29, Ric Moore wrote:
>> 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 live in Belgium, so it didn't come out of my taxes, but L&H tech was
> from Belgium and afaik independent from SRI/Nuance/... until the stocks
> got inflated and then they went bankrupt.
>
>> 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
>
> Agreed but it is not a technical question. Some would say that there other
> places that are better suited to voice your opinion. ;-)

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