Things like that are perfectly possible without any internet-connected services with open source software like CMUSphinx. And as an addition you can get better features like continuous listening (no need to push any button), flexible vocabulary and even speaker identification (only you will be able to open the garage). I really wonder what is cool in Siri doing that.
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#42I did this a few years ago using text messages and Twilio. Not quite as slick as "Siri, open the garage", but it worked! http://rumsey.org/blog/2011/11/voice-controlled-garage-door/ "Siri, text house open the garage" was as close as I got.
You know, I don't hate that as a user experience. It kinda turns the house into an "intelligent" entity. "Siri, text house, I'll be home in 5 minutes" and it would turn on the lights five minutes from now or whatever you like.
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#43That duct tape... and electrical stuff hanging off the ceiling... makes me cringe! EEs in my dad's company used to call that kind of project an "ikebana." :-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikebana
Not just hanging from the ceiling... hanging from communication wires on the ceiling. :shudder:
Still, some sins are excusable in the name of proof-of-concept. :)
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
I feel like this has to come with iOS 8 for Apple to stay competitive against Google Now.
But I thought Google Now doesn't offer an API either? I use both Siri and Google Now (I have an iPhone and Nexus I find myself regularly switching between) and I feel like they are two different products, not meant to compete (yet). Yes, Google now can answer questions like Siri but because it's main focus is on showing me stuff I need when I need it I tend to forget about the Q&A part of the product. I also feel tha…
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#45> I then jokingly opened siri and said “Open the garage”. Siri responded with “I can’t find an app named ‘The Garage’”. Lightbulbs went off. We realized we could get around the fact that Siri has no API by making apps named the phrases we’d like to recognize. Priceless! I wish Siri had an API though.
Windows Phone user here: we got this API for 1.5 years and Cortana just brought it to a higher level :)
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
I feel like this has to come with iOS 8 for Apple to stay competitive against Google Now.
Also to compete with Cortana on windows phone, which lets you register voice commands to run specific apps and provide it input [1]. [1] http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2014/2-530 - Integrating Your App into the Windows Phone Speech Experience
In fact apps can register for voice commands since the release of WP8. Microsoft just improved it so you don't have to register e.g. 1000 movie names to enable the WP voice recognition to understand them, but telling WP to listen for a movie name.