UBI

[Filthy hipster scum]

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/607691307/ubi-the-ubiquitous-computer-voice-activated-and-al-0 

Anyone else want in, getting one atleast.

Hipster

[Martin (Crypt)]

Looks really interesting, maybe we should get a pledge going to support the pledge, so we get one for the space when it gets released, anyone else interested?

[Filthy hipster scum]

yeah sounds good, well volunteered. lol, maybe a few for the space.

[tom]

I'm really sceptical as to how this will cope in a noisy environment, I've been looking at various Continuous Speech Recognition tools to give GladOS a presence and theyre all crap.

[Ken Boak]

Ah yes - voice recognition in a normal home environment.

"Ubi - Turn off the TV"

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"Ubi - Turn off the feckin' TV"

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"Oh for fuck's sake"

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North American voltage (115V) only - definitely lame!

[Mike]

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 01:49:21AM -0700, tom wrote:
> I'm really sceptical as to how this will cope in a noisy environment, I've
> been looking at various Continuous Speech Recognition tools to give GladOS
> a presence and theyre all crap.
>

Hi, this is Eddie, your shipboard computer...

[David Dorward]

On 13 Sep 2012, at 10:07, Ken Boak <ken....@gmail.com> wrote:

> Ah yes - voice recognition in a normal home environment.

Or normal office environment. I had the "joy" of working immediately behind a team working on a voice recognition project last year.

XBox - Eastenders
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Lovely though the people in that team were, I wasn't half glad when they moved desks to a different floor!


--
David Dorward
http://dorward.me.uk

[Benjamin Gatti]

115v?

Plugs in the US are smaller (and therefore more convenient than plugs in 220v countries) We still have 220v in some places (like electric stoves)

but for charging your ipad, 115v is better. Also the holes are smaller so it's more difficult for children to jam things into an outlet. If I were a Londoner, I'd be more proud of Prince Charles than 220 plug scheme :)

[tom]

lets not get onto the superiority of an earthed 3-pin 240v plug over the unearthed, unsafe US style :p We've had this argument in IRC already!

[IrradiatedHaggis]

Unearthed US sockets? I've never seen an unearthed US socket... I think it's been a building code requirement to have a grounded outlets since at least the 1940s....




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[Dave Ingram]

Not sockets, plugs

[Mike]

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 09:18:45AM -0700, Benjamin Gatti wrote:
> 115v?
>
> Plugs in the US are smaller (and therefore more convenient than plugs in
> 220v countries) We still have 220v in some places (like electric stoves)
> but for charging your ipad, 115v is better. Also the holes are smaller so
> it's more difficult for children to jam things into an outlet. If I were a
> Londoner, I'd be more proud of Prince Charles than 220 plug scheme :)
>

I point you in the direction of regulation 553.1.100 from BS7671:

"Every socket-outlet for household and similar use shall be of the shuttered
type and, for an a.c. installation, shall preferably be of a type
complying with BS 1363."

Mike.