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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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Smart Kitchen

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I want a semi-robotic kitchen: a stove that will stir my sauce when I want it to, but will let me do it manually when I need to check its consitency. Endless variations, but as it applies to your question, I want to know what's in the fridge and how much of it, without opening the door. Same for the pantry. I want it to be able to suggest dishes based on what I've got, and to tell me what I need to buy. A video camera inside the oven, color calibrated, so it will know when the cookies are done, and can tell me so. Weight scales in the fridge to know how much milk, etc. was just used up. (RFID in the packages, of course.)

If the computer can parse the current Joy of Cooking, Spices of the World and maybe the Moosewood cookbook, then that would be a good starting point.