Full immersion emulation

On 2 March 2017 at 01:55, ben via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote: A short list of shipping products that do that: Amazon Echo https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01GAGVIE4/ Google Home https://madeby.google.com/home/ Microsoft Cortana https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/cortana (The latter is a free component of Windows 10 Anniversary Update. It startled both me, and later my landlord, when I demonstrated to him that I could operate a (nearly 10-year-old) laptop by just talking to it, and it answering. I have a Win10AE partition on this desktop, but it has no microphone or camera. I prefer it that way, TBH. :?) Summary: it is in fact some time since speech became a primary, and indeed sole, UI for some products. This is indeed their selling point: you automate your home by asking an "intelligent" assistant to dim the lights, or for a weather forecast, or to record a TV program for you, etc. It's not coming soon. It's been here for a couple of years now. -- Liam Proven ? Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lproven at cix.co.uk ? Google Mail/Talk/Plus: lproven at gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/Flickr: lproven ? Skype/LinkedIn/AIM/Yahoo: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 ? ?R/WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal: +420 702 829 053