10-21-2003, 11:00 AM
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Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Sep 2006
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Hold A Conversation With Your PDA
Here's a recent article at The Age site that describes a prototype tool for interacting with PDAs.
"Amanda is the personal assistant of the future: she is a good listener and quick at answering back. She reads email, checks the news and weather, scans exchange rates and arranges appointments...Don't like her somewhat robotic voice? She can change it to have an Australian accent. Rather have a male butler? Amanda can arrange for Joshua to replace her, if you prefer. In fact, preference is what Amanda is all about - because she is a virtual character that resides in a personal digital assistant."
I've read of various earlier attempts at creating different personas for PDAs, but this one may be closer to a real product than the others. Still, the speech recognition processing needs such power that a separate server must be used that communicates with the PDA via WiFi.
But it kinda begs the question: If you could customize it, what kind of personality would YOU build into your Pocket PC?
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10-21-2003, 11:57 AM
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Sage
Join Date: Aug 2006
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But it kinda begs the question: If you could customize it, what kind of personality would YOU build into your Pocket PC?
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My old Loox would most likely have a devilish persona. "My mind is going, we will now soft-reset..." or "I now decide to freeze up and not turn on anymore...hardreset me".
But my new HP 2210 would have someone a lot faster and more responsive. 
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10-21-2003, 01:38 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Jun 2002
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8) I'd like to see again the prototype of all virtual presentators made in the 1980s: Max Headroom !
Thomas Scheen
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10-21-2003, 02:31 PM
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10-21-2003, 03:26 PM
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Actually, I'm pretty certain that my Pocket PC would override any choice I make and develop a Jekyll and Hyde psychopathic dual personality.
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10-21-2003, 04:32 PM
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Pontificator
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Originally Posted by Noel
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I can hear it now - "You forgot your wife's birthday. Have you no honor."
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10-21-2003, 04:53 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Jul 2003
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But but but... If your PDA knows your wifes birthday (it has to, to tell you off for not remembering it) then why didn't it remind you?
Perhaps....it wants you all for itself. :wink:
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10-21-2003, 05:10 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jul 2003
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I am afraid I can't do that dave...
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10-21-2003, 06:10 PM
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Theorist
Join Date: Mar 2003
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It would have to be Eric Cartman, "You forgot your wife's bday you SOB!"
Butthead, "You dumbass! huhuuhuhuhuhuh"
But I really prefer Monty Python "Since you forgot your wife's bday you have to bring me a bigger shrubbery, and cut down a coconut tree(Hawai').........with a herring!" :mrgreen:
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10-22-2003, 01:56 AM
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Pupil
Join Date: Mar 2003
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My IPAQ will have a subservient male personality and will ask me: "can I wash dinner dishes for you, mistress?".... And then proceed to loading the dishes in the dish washer.....
I can dream, can't I? They did finally make a self-propelling vacuum cleaner. PDA's are next in line, I am sure of it.
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