Notices

Originally Posted by Jannis

I think there is no difference -Voicy vs. Saera- in making them do anything useful. Saera does all the processing in one file and Voicy separates these things into different files, one for each app to control. This separation only makes it easier to add/remove controls for a user. The actual piece of python code needed to control something is the same.

From my perspective there aren't many situations where voice control for a phone is really useful (I am not talking about fun things like Chuck Norris news etc.), but at least there are some.
My list goes as follows:
1: navit, because it's better to concentrate on driving and to keep the hands off the phone
2: accept/reject a phone call while driving
3: dial a number while driving
4: control the mp3-player (for example in bed)
5: take a picture

Any suggestions for other useful things?

Originally Posted by Android_808

saera tries to be siri. in this case it's role should be to interpret what you want and decide what to launch. this comes down to lexical analysis (i think thats the right term), trying to work out what the user wants to do. take a weather query, it needs to detect what, where and when and pass this on to app or voicy to execute request.

Originally Posted by Estel

While I get what you mean, I think Saera is aiming to be *more* than a Siri, nowadays. While siri pretends to be AI, in fact, it uses many "shortcuts" to look clever, without real AI routines.

Saera, OTOH, is - at least for me - mainly an AI experiments, and that's is what keeps me interested in project. Frankly, I have no need for "voice command monkey" for launching "apps"

/Estel

Originally Posted by taixzo

Well, something I'm still trying to get Saera to do is read me my email - very useful when I want to catch up on stuff while in the car.
I've got that working for the N900, but I can't find documentation on how the N9 stores emails...

Originally Posted by Jannis

Absolutely true Estel, Voicy is nothing more than a small dumb "voice command monkey".

I, like all of us, would honestly LOVE to see Saera having true AI and beeing more than Siri, which -as you said- only pretends to be AI. To be honest, from my perspective this goal is far out of reach. The best AI system built so far is IBMs "Watson". It won the quiz show Jeopardy. When you compare the hardware of the N900 with Watsons hardware, with a total of 2880 POWER7 processor cores and 16 Terabytes of RAM, capable of processing 500 Gigabytes per second, you know what I mean. It's hardware is even by far bigger than IBMs super-computer "Deep Blue", the famous chess computer, the first one that beat a reigning chess world champion.

And even Watson is not true AI. It is 'just' a very big system with a huge database and driven by software massively parallel computing clever statistical algorithms.

Originally Posted by Jannis

The program only uses a limited set of very distinct commands at a time, but it changes from one set to another, depending on the current foreground task.