50 yrs. of Star Trek!

[Joe Giliberti]

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 <pete at pski.net> wrote:
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>> On Sep 8, 2016, at 1:38 PM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
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>> On 09/08/2016 10:25 AM, Peter Cetinski wrote:
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>>> 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.