[Savannah-hackers] Re: submission of Analaca Natural Language Computing Agent - savannah.nongnu.org

[Mathieu Roy]

address@hidden said:

> A package was submitted to savannah.nongnu.org
> This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> D. Anthony Patrick <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: lgpl
> Other License: 
> Package: Analaca Natural Language Computing Agent
> System name: analaca
> Type: non-GNU
> 
> Description:
> The Analaca project provides a natural language computing agent, or rather, a 
> framework for building an autonomous computing agent using speech as its 
> primary user interface for command entry and response.  The project will 
> define an API providing methods for the following:  accessing permanent data 
> storage, a \"brain\", containing past parameters and success/fail data for 
> specific tasks;  speech recognition and synthesis abstraction for available 
> license-compatible engines providing these services;  developing modules to 
> execute specific tasks, some of which will be developed by core Analaca 
> developers, though many will be contributed by the community (hopefully).  At 
> this point, \"artificial intelligence\", as in the ability of Analaca to 
> figure out how to do new tasks on its own, is not planned, though it is 
> welcomed.  It is currently limited due to a lack of expertise in AI by its 
> primary developer.
> 
> Other Software Required:
> Planned support for CMU\'s Sphinx2, which _does not_ depend on Java, 
> (http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/sphinx/) for speech recognition and CMU\'s 
> Flite (http://www.cmuflite.org) and Edinburgh University\'s Festival for 
> speech synthesis.  Support for the native OS TTS in Mac OS X and Microsoft 
> Windows may be added but will not be recommended or automatically installed 
> in accordance with the rules of this site.
> 
> Other Comments:
> Starting a company offering support for Analaca would be great, but I\'m not 
> planning on it right now.  I\'m more interested in getting it running myself 
> so I can check mail and read slashdot while I\'m washing dishes.  I\'m also 
> hoping that it can help get me in to CMU as a transfer student to finish my 
> undergrad, and possibly meet, and/or work in the lab(s) of, Kevin Lenzo and 
> Alan Black.  That is my motivation.  I\'d also like to meet RMS.


About meeting RMS, you should ask him, he will not be aware of this
description. 

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Mathieu Roy
 
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