Re: [DEVEL] Saera: Siri clone for Maemo 5
 

What list of languages it will support by stable version for N9?
Thanks.

Re: [DEVEL] Saera: Siri clone for Maemo 5
 

hi
first thanks for your hard work
second : please support the N9 version even though have a problem
please we are so interesting :p

Re: [DEVEL] Saera: Siri clone for Maemo 5
 

FYI, Apple got a "design patent" for the Siri icon/button. :(
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11...design_patent/

Maybe you should change the image to be on the safe side? ;)

IMHO, besides all the patent madness I don't see the advantage copying the exact Siri design in this case. I also wonder why people like such "skeuomorphs" as the speech bubble appearance of the Siri conversation view?

Cheers,
Michael

Re: [DEVEL] Saera: Siri clone for Maemo 5
 

What is with the Harmatan version? If i remember it right you wanted to mace one.

Re: [DEVEL] Saera: Siri clone for Maemo 5
 

So far the list of languages includes English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, and French. If anybody would like to contribute translations for other languages, please PM me.

I was afraid they might. The main reason I copied Apple's UI was because I didn't want to take the time to come up with a nice-looking design myself, but I suppose it's possible Apple might notice this some day, so it is probably a good idea to redesign it. Any ideas on design? I'm better at functionality than graphic design.

I am still working on the Harmattan version, please be patient. QT is very different from GTK so the port is not trivial, but I expect I should have a downloadable .deb by the end of 2012.

Re: [DEVEL] Saera: Siri clone for Maemo 5
 

That Apple is able to get a patent on the exact outline of a microphone icon, is the biggest testament to how utterly ******** the patent system is.

Personally, I think some icon of a brain, or the act of searching, might be more appropriate than the Siri microphone. Frankly, I never understood why Apple chose to use a microphone logo to begin with - I don't associate Siri with sound recording, I associate it with voice processing (which I don't associate with a microphone) or with searching (for which the silhouette of an eye might make sense. Though now that I think about it, so might the silhoutte of an ear...).

Re: [DEVEL] Saera: Siri clone for Maemo 5
 

So have I understood correctly, are you re-writing the application in Qt?

Re: [DEVEL] Saera: Siri clone for Maemo 5
 

Yes, I am. It's taking longer for me because this is my first project with QT, and because I have little free time until Christmas or so.

Re: [DEVEL] Saera: Siri clone for Maemo 5
 

Cool.
It will be much easier for yourself to build updates for all systems.
This is all good news for the future of Saera.

Good luck.

Re: [DEVEL] Saera: Siri clone for Maemo 5
 

I personally would vote for the startrek communicator badge as icon symbol but maybe you will run also in trouble with this. :)

For the conversation view I would rather use different colors for the voice input and for Saera's answers to make them better distinguishable. Or the messages could have prefixes as "Me:" and "Saera:" or even avatar/profile pics if you could train Saera to understand different speakers or have several voices in the future.

Maybe there exists already a conversation component in Qt/QML
you can reuse?

Regarding the saera voice have you tried flite for speech output? There was a N900 version some time ago. I think it sounds more natural than espeak as it's based on concatenation instead of formant synthesis.


Best, M.