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RFP - Request For Project

1. Train Google Home to recognize Amazon Echo's voice as its owner.

2. Train Amazon Echo to recognize Siri's voice as its owner

3. Train Siri to recognize Google Home's voice as its owner

4. Kick start some kind of endless loop between the three of them.

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I think you just wrote Friday's xkcd

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11270758

Amazon's Echo doesn't have an owner concept. I didn't think Siri did either. My Echo can take commands from anyone, there's no authentication at all outside of initial set up with your Amazon account. My daughter and I have completely different voices and we use it without problems.

> Amazon's Echo doesn't have an owner concept. I didn't think Siri did either. My Echo can take commands from anyone, there's no authentication at all outside of initial set up with your Amazon account. My daughter and I have completely different voices and we use it without problems.

By owner I mean the voice that it's trained to respond to (not in an authentication sense). See [1] and [2].

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...

[2]: http://www.techtimes.com/articles/83995/20150913/ios-9-inclu...

Siri learns your voice if you activate the "Hey Siri" option. AFAIK it doesn't affect normal [manual] commands.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204389#hey

Cortana gets jealous for being out of the party.

What about Watson?

Can you buy a Watson and put it on your shelf?

About as much as you can buy Amazon Echo or Google Home actually. At least IBM makes very clear what the usage conditions of Watson are, and it's fully extensible.

So you're saying IBM offers something that could be turned into an Echo-like system? Do you have any links on how to do that? I'm interested.

Watson's basically a "bring-your-own-knowledge-base" NLP platform. There's the developer site[1] if you can manage to read through IBM's marketing speak[2]. The docs are pretty good.

1. http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developercl...

2. It's rather amusing, but IBM has a ton of really smart people making cool stuff, then a ton of marketing people seemingly pitching at someone other than the target audience and making it sound dumb. If you can wade through the marketing BS, Watson is very cool.

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