"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)
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)
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.
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.
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.
"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