Virpi
- Mark Adler -- contact
- MIT: Jim Glass, Stephanie Seneff, David Karger, Lee Hetherington, Scott Cyphers
- NRCC: Mark Adler, Deepali Khushraj, Imre Kiss, Ora Lassila, Joe Polifroni, Tao Wu
- Interns: Max Van Kleek, Mikko Perttunen
Overview
Virpi - VIRtual Personal assIstant
The cellular phone is rapidly transforming itself from a mobile telecommunication device into a multi-faceted information manager that supports both spoken communication among people as well as the manipulation of an increasingly diverse set of data types that are stored both locally and remotely. Although the essence of the device has been to support spoken human-human communication, speech and language technology will also prove to be vital enablers for graceful human-device interaction, and for effective audio-visual content creation and access.
For 2008, we are bringing together the work done last year on Simone and ConnectingMe to create an even more ambitious project. Virpi combines the work we have started on creating spoken dialogue systems with the improved knowledge representation and related tools for exploring data and associated metadata.
Our goals are to create nothing less than a revolutionary new way of interacting with mobile devices and the world; and our approach is to use rapid prototyping to test our ideas, and produce better and better implementations.
Demo or Die!
Virpi project ideas: VirpiScratchPad