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[gfish]

On the long drive home Monday, I had plenty of time to think. I happened to come up with a very interesting idea for an extension to the PhraseServer element of my media infrastructure.

The question I pose to you is: What kind of things would you want to do using the voice interface for a smarthome? Ask when the next bus is, set the thermostat, what? Specifically, I'm trying to get a feel for what kind of content it would be conveying, and what the range of structures of the generated phrases would be like.

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[loree.livejournal.com]

Weather, time, traffic, lock/unlock/open doors when my arms are full, answer the phone, check voicemail, check temperature/chemical levels in the hot tub, check quantity/volume/freshness/expiration dates of items in the fridge/pantry and tell me when it's time to go grocery shopping, tell me when the laundry's done, be able to tell me the difference between a delivery person and a Jehovah's Witness and answer the doorbell accordingly....

[vixyish.livejournal.com]

Oh man, that last one especially.