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Inspired by Iron Man, Zazu Makes Mobile App for More Intelligent Wake-Up Calls

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See also the DPAC: http://egaertner.com/dpac/

"This will check your Google Calendar, schedule an alarm for the next event while factoring in driving distance, traffic, and weather conditions. It’s got an audio system for radio and iPod operation, but also includes some home automation options. Using the X10 communication protocol it can turn on lights, start the coffee maker, and open the blinds as part of a gentle wake-up cycle. All of this is configurable through the clock itself, or via the web interface." (via Hackaday)

Should be pretty easy to port to a Chumby.

For other JARVIS implementations see: http://projectjarvis.com/ and Stephanie http://absolutemaximumratings.com/projects_stephanie.php

He's actually a Northeastern alum whom I spoke with just a few weeks back! Great minds think alike and come out of NU! (disclaimer im one of the co-founders of Zazu)

Nice to see some competition http://sleep.fm . Though your marketing copy/value proposition seems very familiar :)

good luck

I tried sleep.fm once. The big problem for me is that the two voice options are either "overly dramatic American-accented movie trailer man" or "extremely bored-sounding American-accented woman", neither of whom I can deal with at six o'clock in the morning.

I'd pay good money for something a little less annoying and a little more customizable. Greet me by name, tell me what today is, what the weather is, how many new emails I have, remind me of anything I told it to remind me, and then launch into playing a song I like. It'd work better as a desktop app than a web app.

Thanks for the feedback Hugh! What voice or type of voice would better suit you?

Sexy female robot voice. Like in the movies. No, I am not joking.

Majel Barrett, please.

Here's hoping that her voice will someday be reconstituted from recordings the way Roger Ebert's was.

Thanks for the input & suggestions :).

I see Majel unfortunately passed in 2008. Here's a vid of here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USH7LaXXQ7k&feature=relat... and I learned she was the creator of Star Trek's wife. Interesting.

I was gonna say, isn't that the name of the royal major domo from The Lion King? But then I read the article and... I see what ur doin there.

Using PySpeech (http://code.google.com/p/pyspeech/), I put together something in a couple hours last night that will listen for its name (currently "Jarvis") at the beginning or end of a sentence and offer the rest of the sentence to whichever "app" matches it most highly. Right now the "apps" are echo (I say "Jarvis, echo "a big blue house" and my computer says "a big blue house"), a 'manners' app (I say "Thanks, Jarvis" and it says "You're welcome, sir."; it also gives me time of day-appropriate greetings) and a weather app (intelligent responses to "Jarvis, weather" or "Forecast for Friday, Jarvis"). It just runs with my headset mic right now, but once I move in a few months I'll start looking for some better hardware. Alarm and appointment apps are next.

Anyway, the point is that this is really easy to build yourself - most of the hard problems have been solved (I was really surprised how well Win7 speech recognition works), and you just have to write the glue.

(I'm Zazu's geek)

Gimme an email if you're interested in beta testing: marc [at] getzazu [.] com

Very sweet idea, and something I've been wanting for ages. No android here though so I guess I'll wait for the iPhone/iPad version? Good luck!!

Hehe, I was there when these guys were at boston.startupweekend. They should have won!

wow. i've been building something similar for myself for about a week now. the x10 integration is a nice touch-i'll have to incorporate that into mine as well.

Great idea. I'd much prefer this to an alarm clock!

lots of requests for Beta sign-ups, http://bit.ly/8YUiv9

She couldn't put in the two hours to watch the movie?

To write a 300-word article about an alarm clock app?

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