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Blackberry Messenger hate
BlackBerry Messenger (abbreviated BBM) is a proprietary Instant Messenger application included on newer model BlackBerry devices


I hate bbm because I cannot do spaces before my +1
I hate bbm because I cannot do spaces before my name. Its so annoying where as before you could. The background colour of messenger is so boring and manly.. Grey .

If You Talk to Me, Do I Not Talk Back? Google Acquire Phonetic Arts

If You Talk to Me, Do I Not Talk Back? Google Acquire Phonetic Arts

No, it’s not a Shakespearian app. It’s Google’s latest business development. Straight from the mouth of the company that put voice search on your smart phone, Google announced today they want your computers to talk to you. Or rather, Google-powered devices, more to the point. The Official Google Blog just announced Google’s acquisition of England’s Phonetic Arts, a company specializing in speech algorithms, founded four years ago.

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[GB] Google Working On Star Trek Speech Technology.

[GB] Google Working On Star Trek Speech Technology.

Quote:

There’s a particular focus right now in the U.K. on technology and innovation, and we’re delighted to be deepening our investment in the country with this acquisition. We already have a strong engineering center in London and look forward to welcoming Phonetic Arts to the team. We are excited about their technology, and while we don’t have plans to share yet, we’re confident that together we’ll move a little faster towards that Star Trek future.

They just keep on talking and talking and talking.
In one long unbroken sentence.

http://www.overclock.net/t/882991/gb-google-working-on-star-trek-speech-technology

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Steve Jobs hates Android and Open Source

Steve Jobs hates Android and Open Source

Steve Jobs hates Android and Open Source Software!!! Its a regime!!!

Rumor: Android’s Answer to Siri is Coming Soon

Repubblish From Rumor: Android’s Answer to Siri is Coming Soon

Siri, the virtual assistant built into Apple’s iPhone 4S, seemed to catch competitors off guard. But all along, Google has reportedly been working on its own voice-controlled assistant for Android phones that responds to natural language.

The project is apparently codenamed Majel, and may see an initial release by the end of this year, Android and Me reports, based on unnamed sources. The codename is a reference to the Federation Computer in Star Trek, whose full name is voiced by Majel Barrett-Roddenberry.

Android already supports voice commands, but the syntax is rigid. If you want to play music, you must say “Listen to…”, and if you want directions, you must say “Navigate to…” What makes Siri so interesting is that it responds to natural language. So if you want to find a place to eat, you could say “I’m in the mood for…” or “Show me some nearby restaurants.” The program picks up on keywords to figure out what the user wants. Reportedly, Majel will have similar capabilities.

The initial release will be limited to search queries, Android and Me’s Taylor Wimberly reports. Presumably that means you’ll be able to find nearby points of interest or get answers to questions, but won’t be able to perform phone actions such as navigation with natural language. Also, Wimberly hedges a bit by saying that January or February is a more realistic time frame for the arrival of Majel.

Although we’re still in rumor territory, Google has previously shown an interest in Star Trek’s ideas. In 2010, when the company acquired Phonetic Arts, whose technology generates computer speech from small voice samples, Google’s Mike Cohen said “we’re confident that together we’ll move a little faster towards that Star Trek future.” More recently, Google’s Android product management director Matias Duarte likened Siri to the droids of Star Wars–essentially, comic relief–whereas his company was inspired by Star Trek, in which everything is voice aware.

From those remarks, we at least know that Google has a vision, but only in vague terms. If the latest rumor is accurate, we may soon get a better idea of what the company is thinking, and how it plans to seriously compete with Apple and Siri.

[This post republished from Techland.]

Majel Barrett-Roddenberry - The voice of the computer

Majel Barrett-Roddenberry - The voice of the computer

Majel Barrett-Roddenberry is the only actor to participate in all six Star Trek TV series. She played Number One, Nurse Christine Chapel, Lwaxana Troi, the voice of the federation computer, the narrator and many more. This video is a tribute to that achievement.



Star Trek: The Original Series:
*"The Cage"
**Susan Oliver -- Vina
**Laurel Goodwin - J.M. Colt
**Majel Barrett - Number One

*"A Taste of Armageddon"
**DeForest Kelley - Leonard H. "Bones" McCoy
**James Doohan - Montgomery "Scotty" Scott

Star Trek: The Animated Series:
*"One of our planets is missing"
**Leonard Nimoy - Spock

Star Trek: The Next Generation:
*"Conspiracy"
**Brent Spiner -- Data

*"Relics"
**James Doohan - Montgomery "Scotty" Scott

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
*"Emissary"
**Avery Brooks - Benjamin Sisko
**Stephen Davies - Bolian Lieutenant
**Cirroc Lofton - Jake Sisko

Star Trek: Voyager
*"Caretaker"
**Robert Duncan McNeill - Tom Paris
**Garrett Wang - Harry Kim
**Jeff McCarthy -- Voyager's Chief medical officer
**Scott Jaeck -- Cavit

*"Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy"
**Roxann Biggs-Dawson - B'Elanna Torres
**Jeri Ryan - Seven of Nine
**Robert Picardo - The Doctor
**Garrett Wang - Harry Kim

*"Q2"
**Kate Mulgrew - Kathryn Janeway

Star Trek: Enterprise
*"In a Mirror, Darkly, Part II"
**Scott Bakula - Jonathan Archer
**Linda Park - Hoshi Sato
Official Google Blog: Can we talk? Better speech technology with Phonetic Arts

Google’s response to Siri is codenamed Majel, could be released by end of year

Google’s response to Siri is codenamed Majel, could be released by end of year

I wrote about Google’s response to Apple’s Siri voice assistant several months ago and over the last couple weeks I received further details about the secret project. For starters it is codenamed Majel, which comes from Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, better known as the voice of the Federation Computer from Star Trek.

Majel is an evolution of Google’s Voice Actions that is currently available on most Android phones with the addition of natural language processing. Where Voice Actions required you to issue specific commands like “send text to…” or “navigate to…”, Majel will allow you to perform actions in your natural language similar to how Siri functions.

Speaking of actions, it sounds like only Google search queries will be included with the initial release, that could come as soon as this year. I say this year because I’ve heard that engineers at Google X are working around the clock on finishing the first release and the NYTimes previously reported that one product would be released by Google X this year.

December if nearly half over, so a January or February release might be more realistic. Other more advanced features like controlling phone actions and applications with natural language commands are expected to come later.

Google’s Matias Duarte had previously given hints about the future of Android’s voice actions in an interview with Slashgear. Matias said, “Our approach is more like Star Trek, right, starship Enterprise; every piece of computing surface, everything is voice-aware. It’s not that there’s a personality, it doesn’t have a name, it’s just Computer.”

I had previously speculated that Google’s approach might actually include some kind of animated avatar, but it appears I was way off on that one. However, we still expect greatly enhanced computer voices that sound more human and fluid, thanks to Google’s acquisition of Phonetic Arts, which occurred at the tail end of 2010.

Hopefully more concrete details will leak out soon. People smarter than I will read this article and I’m sure they will be able to dig up additional iformation. In the mean time, enjoy Data talking with Computer in the video below.

Update: Check out this new post for additional details about Majel and quotes from Googlers talking about Star Trek.

Sources : http://androidandme.com/2011/12/news/googles-response-to-siri-is-codenamed-majel-could-be-released-by-end-of-year/

Google Majel voice recognition for Android to start war of words with Siri

Google Majel voice recognition for Android to start war of words with Siri

Reports have come in from AndroidandMe that Google is planning a new natural language system called Majel, and that this Android voice recognition software could be with us by the end of 2011 and bring Siri-like features to Android mobiles.

Named from the Federation computer in Star Trek, Majel would likely replace Android's current voice recognition software Voice Actions, but rather than specific commands having to be vocalised, users would be able to make use of Majel's natural language algorithms in order to bring about a far more complex and, hopefully, accurate system. Much like iPhone 4S users can with Siri.

The apparent 2011 release date comes from speculation involving a rumour that engineers at Google's special ideas lab, Google X, are aiming to finish their first release by the end of the year.

Presumably this early iteration will be based around web search, before moving onto the more taxing task of delivering in-phone functions. However, regardless of the timing of the launch Google is in an excellent place to deliver a great product as its massive data reserves should act as a useful tool for language analysis.

Do you like the sound of Majel? Have you used Siri? Let us know what you think in the comments below...

Via: androidandme.com

Google Android to take on Apple iPhone's Siri

Google Android to take on Apple iPhone's Siri - Google’s own version of Apple’s voice software, Siri, could be launched by the end of this year, it has been reported.

Currently dubbed ‘Majel’ after the voice computer from science-fiction TV series Star Trek, Google Android’s vocal-input software is apparently in the final stages of development, with a view for a December release.

According to technology website Android and Me the project has been developed by the notoriously secret Google centre in San Francisco, known as Google X, over the past year. Earlier this month Google acquired Clever Sense, developers of the Alfred assistant smartphone application, in a move that strongly indicated the company’s intentions to cash in on Siri’s success.

While most Android phones currently carry Google’s interactive app, Voice Actions, the software still requires a rigid user input, without the freedom to stray beyond pre-set commands. If reports are substantiated, Majel will detect users’ vocal behaviour in a similar way to Apple’s Siri, offering a more conversational experience.

Speaking to Slashgear in October, Android operating system director Matias Duarte said the voice assistant being developed would be like “the Starship Enterprise,” which explains the software’s sci-fi referencing name. He also added: “You can talk to it and you can touch it, you can interact with it at the same time as you talk with it,” providing further evidence that Google aims to provide users with an exceptionally lifelike virtual character.

With December now half way through, the alleged end-of-year release date seems ambitious, with a spillover to early 2012 appearing much more likely. However Android And Me, which broke the news, claims only internet search queries will be available in the initial release, with more to be added throughout next year.

Sources

Google planning a Siri rival called Majel, for Android

Google planning a Siri rival called Majel, for Android

Majel is to Android as Siri is to Apple’s iOS.

Okay, it’s not a perfect analogy, but it looks like Majel is the code name for Google’s version of Siri, Apple’s on-board iPhone assistant. It could be coming out on Android before the end of this year, but more than likely at the beginning of

next year.

Majel will be an updated iteration of Google’s Voice Actions, an app that’s currently available for download on Android devices. Voice Actions works by listening to your command: fire up the app, say “Send text to [recipient]” or “navigate to [address/city/business name]” and the phone will do as you asked it to.

But Majel will be more natural. Much like Siri, Majel will let you perform these actions in your normal manner of speaking. That is, it’s intuitive. Well, if you consider Siri intuitive.In fact, Siri’s intuition has been called into question. Mat Honan, writing for Business Insider called it “Apple’s Broken Promise.” In the article, he argues that Apple failed to nail voice recognition and response.

Will Google do a better job?

Majel is rumored to be able to recognize Google Search queries. This is nothing new; Siri does the same. But Google has been working on voice recognition for a long time.

Google had been working on an app that personalized voice search; a program that would begin to learn and recognize how you–as an individual–speak. That app was Google Voice.

With Google Voice, you can opt-in to begin letting Google process your specific speech inflections, patterns, and speed. Over time, the app learns to adjust itself to your voice.

If Google builds that technology into Majel–and there’s no reason to assume they won’t–those annoying Siri-esque responses (“I’m sorry, I didn’t quite get that”) could be short lived.

Coupled with that, Google also announced this week that they’d purchased Clever Sense, the team that designed Alfred, an app that begins to learn what types of things you like to do and then uses that knowledge to offer up suggestions.

So we have Google search, Majel - which learns your voice, and Alfred, which learns your preferences.

It reminds me of something then Google CEO Eric Schmidt said back in October 2010:

“Ultimately search engines and the other knowledge engines that everybody is building will morph, over time, into things that help you figure out what you should be consuming and what information you should care about right now.”

Majel, named after the Federation Computer from Star Trek, is Google’s next step in that conquest.

Sources

Android version of Siri : Google prepping Apple iPhone's Siri rival 'Majel' for Android phones

Android version of Siri : Google prepping Apple iPhone's Siri rival 'Majel' for Android phones - LONDON: Google is reportedly planning to expand its existing voice-recognition assistant for Android that will allow users to perform actions in their natural language similar to how Apple iPhone's Siri functions.

According to AndroidandMe.com, the company is planning to add a natural language processing feature to Google Voice Actions, already available on most Android phones.

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Google's project Majel gets more interesting by the day

Google's project Majel gets more interesting by the day

Ask any honest Android fanboy what he envies about the iPhone 4S and chances are good that he or she will menton Siri. And since we're speaking honestly, I'll be the first to admit that this is one feature that I wish my Android could do.

Sure, there are plenty of apps vying for the "Android version of Siri," but none of them are as quite as well-rounded as the iOS app.

Thankfully, we should have an official client on the way as rumors of a "Majel" project began picking up steam this week. Factoring in the early details uncovered by Android And Me and one very recent acquisition, it appears that Google is wasting no time in bringing about a rebuttal.

In the few days since the first information came to light, Android And Me has obtained new tips that paint the picture of a fast-tracked project. One particularly interesting detail comes from a source who claims to have spent time with an early release.

Their tipster advises that it was "definitely as good, or better, than Siri" and that the version that he used was tablet-based. The source goes on to describe trays of results which can be swiped away or selected based on what the user was looking for.

Read more: http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19736_7-57343849-251/googles-project-majel-gets-more-interesting-by-the-day/#ixzz1ghOousZw