【 以下文字转载自 PDA 讨论区 】 发信人: guvest (我爱你老婆Anna), 信区: PDA 标 题: SIRI最早是开发来战场帮助战士的 zz 发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Fri Oct 14 00:30:49 2011, 美东) http://9to5mac.com/2011/10/03/co-founder-of-siri-assistant-is-a In 2003, the US Government began the most ambitious Artificial Intelligence program in its history called the “Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes” or CALO program. The name was inspired by the Latin word “ calonis”, which means “soldier’s servant”. Funded by DARPA as part of its Personal Assistant that Learns project, the program ran for five years and brought together more than 300 researchers from 25 of the top university and commercial research institutions, with the goal of “building a new generation of cognitive assistants that can reason, learn from experience, be told what to do, explain what they are doing, reflect on their experience , and respond robustly to surprise.” NUANCE并不重要: 9to5Mac: How important is Nuance speech recognition to the Siri technology? Norm: It is a lot less important than you’d probably think. When we first built Siri, we use Vlingo for speech recognition and as such, at the time of purchase the speech recognition component is modular. Theoretically, if a better speech recognition comes along (or Apple buys one), they could likely replace Nuance without too much trouble. That being said, Nuance has far and away the most IP in speech synthesis technologies in the industry. We should know, SRI launched Nuance as one of our incubated companies in 1995 and it IPO’d in 2000.