If he is involved with Cabrini Green, then he is motivated by more than money... much more.
I vividly remember making a wrong turn one night and ending up on a street near it and just wanting to get out of there ASAP. Misty night, junker cars with steamed up windows, and nothing looking all too friendly around, and certainly a wonderful rep to go with it.
He may have all the money he can use now but that's definitely not a for-profit item there, more because he wants to make a difference.
It does make more sense if you read the article from the beginning especially since it also touches on the history of digital/artificial voice and gender.
"An Apple spokeswoman declined to comment on why the company gave Siri a female voice in the U.S. Nor would she say why Siri speaks like a man in the UK, where iPhone 4S owners have swarmed online forums to request a female voice instead. "
"If you are a start-up you want to get acquired by Apple," he wrote. "Fun times."
Seems like a big compliment to Apple. Aren't a lot of start-ups worried about how their tech might get mangled or left to collect dust after they've been acquired?
I wonder if endorsements like this will help Apple more easily acquire other start-ups in the future.
Amazing how a troll can hook so many and steer the dialog so easily.
That wouldn't be so bad, except you then have people who quote the entire lame ass message so that even if you have said troll on your ignore list you get to be exposed to his idiocy anyway.
Since you're Apple Insider you should know that Siri is the AI module and not the voice recognition technology. Which is supposedly from Nuance - but unconfirmed.
Equally amazing is how a known troll can stay so long without being banned. Why?
Freedom of Speech.
Beauty is that his freedom to speak can be overrun by our freedom to ignore him. Or even better ignore list him. Cause freedom of speech doesn't mean we have an obligation to listen.
and if folks would stop quoting him I wouldn't have to see someone I've had on my list for ages
...are the folks that expect someone like Dag to remain in a corporate culture while their personalities are entrepreneurial. Of course once Apple had embedded the new technology into the processes and development of the hardware and software, Dag would want to move on. As the article stated, he was now free to move on and develop something else new and fun, not to mention spend time with his family. Exactly the way things should work!
Entrepreneurs love the adventure of discovering, inventing and innovating. Not so much the corporate environment, even one as innovative as Apple. Go forth Dag and do something else cool again!
A dozen newer trolls with far more posts than him (each) have been allowed to stay. It's not surprising.
Can? Very likely. Will Apple ever give us said choice? Nope.
...on the Mac. Anyone who has followed Apple development knows this of course. And the fact that you can add to and modify the library as well via ConvenienceWare, Cepstral, InfoVox, and CereProc products. Apple typically releases leading edge developments with a reduced set of setting and controls to make sure that user experience is controlled and doesn't requires excessive user intervention intially. Once they are comfortable with the user responses, they expand the feature set.
Recalling of course that Apple made clear in the release announcement that Siri was in beta release, yes?
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If he is involved with Cabrini Green, then he is motivated by more than money... much more.
I vividly remember making a wrong turn one night and ending up on a street near it and just wanting to get out of there ASAP. Misty night, junker cars with steamed up windows, and nothing looking all too friendly around, and certainly a wonderful rep to go with it.
He may have all the money he can use now but that's definitely not a for-profit item there, more because he wants to make a difference.
Oh, that's nonsense. Guy's completely deluded.
Are you referring to Rebecca or Brandon?
Are you referring to Rebecca or Brandon?
Whoever? said the last paragraph.
Whoever? said the last paragraph.
It does make more sense if you read the article from the beginning especially since it also touches on the history of digital/artificial voice and gender.
Amazing how a troll can hook so many and steer the dialog so easily.
Equally amazing is how a known troll can stay so long without being banned. Why?
Interesting read at CNN. Last paragraph addresses your question.
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/10/21/te...ces/index.html
Also interesting to note from that same article:
"An Apple spokeswoman declined to comment on why the company gave Siri a female voice in the U.S. Nor would she say why Siri speaks like a man in the UK, where iPhone 4S owners have swarmed online forums to request a female voice instead. "
Equally amazing is how a known troll can stay so long without being banned. Why?
A dozen newer trolls with far more posts than him (each) have been allowed to stay. It's not surprising.
Can Siri have a unisex voice?
Can? Very likely. Will Apple ever give us said choice? Nope.
"If you are a start-up you want to get acquired by Apple," he wrote. "Fun times."
Seems like a big compliment to Apple. Aren't a lot of start-ups worried about how their tech might get mangled or left to collect dust after they've been acquired?
I wonder if endorsements like this will help Apple more easily acquire other start-ups in the future.
Wish him all the best, especially if he has family in Chicago
A dozen newer trolls with far more posts than him (each) have been allowed to stay. It's not surprising.
Can? Very likely. Will Apple ever give us said choice? Nope.
You can change Siri from this Apple Support doc....you can change the gender of the voice but you have to change languages to get a male voice..
https://discussions.apple.com/thread...art=0&tstart=0
You can change Siri from this Apple Support doc....you can change the gender of the voice but you have to change languages to get a male voice..
Ah, I can't do a convincing British accent, anyway. Irish, sure, but not British.
Amazing how a troll can hook so many and steer the dialog so easily.
That wouldn't be so bad, except you then have people who quote the entire lame ass message so that even if you have said troll on your ignore list you get to be exposed to his idiocy anyway.
Ugh...
C'mon... the guy is a troll... always has been.
And yet knowing this all of you still reply to him, giving him what he wants.
learn to ignore, life is so much better when you do
Equally amazing is how a known troll can stay so long without being banned. Why?
Freedom of Speech.
Beauty is that his freedom to speak can be overrun by our freedom to ignore him. Or even better ignore list him. Cause freedom of speech doesn't mean we have an obligation to listen.
and if folks would stop quoting him I wouldn't have to see someone I've had on my list for ages
A dozen newer trolls with far more posts than him (each) have been allowed to stay. It's not surprising.
What would AI be without the trolls? It's like rock and roll without feedback!
By the way, whatever happened to Cloudgazer? He was not a troll, but he had something like 4k posts in 3-4 months and then suddenly disappeared.
Entrepreneurs love the adventure of discovering, inventing and innovating. Not so much the corporate environment, even one as innovative as Apple. Go forth Dag and do something else cool again!
A dozen newer trolls with far more posts than him (each) have been allowed to stay. It's not surprising.
Can? Very likely. Will Apple ever give us said choice? Nope.
...on the Mac. Anyone who has followed Apple development knows this of course. And the fact that you can add to and modify the library as well via ConvenienceWare, Cepstral, InfoVox, and CereProc products. Apple typically releases leading edge developments with a reduced set of setting and controls to make sure that user experience is controlled and doesn't requires excessive user intervention intially. Once they are comfortable with the user responses, they expand the feature set.
Recalling of course that Apple made clear in the release announcement that Siri was in beta release, yes?