[Savannah-hackers] submission of Analaca Natural Language Computing Agent - savannah.nongnu.org

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D. Anthony Patrick <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: lgpl
Other License: 
Package: Analaca Natural Language Computing Agent
System name: analaca
Type: non-GNU

Description:
The Analaca project provides a natural language computing agent, or rather, a 
framework for building an autonomous computing agent using speech as its 
primary user interface for command entry and response.  The project will define 
an API providing methods for the following:  accessing permanent data storage, 
a \"brain\", containing past parameters and success/fail data for specific 
tasks;  speech recognition and synthesis abstraction for available 
license-compatible engines providing these services;  developing modules to 
execute specific tasks, some of which will be developed by core Analaca 
developers, though many will be contributed by the community (hopefully).  At 
this point, \"artificial intelligence\", as in the ability of Analaca to figure 
out how to do new tasks on its own, is not planned, though it is welcomed.  It 
is currently limited due to a lack of expertise in AI by its primary developer.

Other Software Required:
Planned support for CMU\'s Sphinx2, which _does not_ depend on Java, 
(http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/sphinx/) for speech recognition and CMU\'s Flite 
(http://www.cmuflite.org) and Edinburgh University\'s Festival for speech 
synthesis.  Support for the native OS TTS in Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows may 
be added but will not be recommended or automatically installed in accordance 
with the rules of this site.

Other Comments:
Starting a company offering support for Analaca would be great, but I\'m not 
planning on it right now.  I\'m more interested in getting it running myself so 
I can check mail and read slashdot while I\'m washing dishes.  I\'m also hoping 
that it can help get me in to CMU as a transfer student to finish my undergrad, 
and possibly meet, and/or work in the lab(s) of, Kevin Lenzo and Alan Black.  
That is my motivation.  I\'d also like to meet RMS.