Chatting with your PDA

researcher at the University of New South Wales in Australia have create a personal organizer with a voice synthesiser that you’re able to in reality hold a conversation with :

Amanda is the personal assistant of the future : she is a good attender and quick at answering back . She reads electronic mail , check the news and atmospheric condition , scan exchange charge per unit and arranges appointments . Ask her any query and she ’ll raise her brow as she consider it carefully , blink while she scans the cyberspace for an answer , and extradite her finding within seconds . Do n’t like her somewhat automatic spokesperson ? She can change it to have an Australian accent . Rather have a male butler ? Amanda can arrange for Joshua to replace her , if you prefer . In fact , preference is what Amanda is all about – because she is a virtual character that reside in a personal digital assistant .

The put-on is that the PDA has to be wirelessly connected to a server which actually performs all the heavy - lifting that goes into speech realisation and natural language technology , but definitely a sign of thing to come .