It's funny you bring up Alexa and Siri. I read an article a few days ago about how Majel Barrett, the voice of the ship's computer from TOS to the first reboot movie (and Gene Roddenberry's wife) recorded a phonetic library shortly before her death. I know that Google at one point had a speech system called "Majel." I don't know if it is related, but it would be pretty cool if it was...
On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 1:49 PM, Peter Cetinski <p...@pski.net> wrote: > >> On Sep 8, 2016, at 1:38 PM, Chuck Guzis <ccl...@sydex.com> wrote: >> >> On 09/08/2016 10:25 AM, Peter Cetinski wrote: >> >>> A few examples are the PADD (iPad and other tablets) and the >>> Communicator (Mobile Phones). >> >> Maybe, but the computer "brain" IIRC was always shipboard. Dick Tracy >> had the 2-way wrist radio decades before. >> > > That reminds me of another one. Amazon's Alexa and Apple’s Siri are not > quite there yet but are very similar to the voice-interactive main computer > from the Enterprise.
