"All" means all. On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 12:17 PM, Richard Gaskin <ambassa...@fourthworld.com > wrote:
> Mike Kerner wrote: > > > > I emailed Kevin and proposed another funding round, for universal > > voice support across all platforms for all digital assistants. We > > paid Monte to give us hooks into Dragon (for both voice in and out), > > because Siri wasn't available. > > With all due respect to you and the dev team, I hope that before we pull > them away into new platform-specific features we first tighten up the loose > ends with Windows. > > I know that Mac represents a disproportionately large segment of our > audience, but what we use to develop on is less important than where we > deliver to our customers. Many of us who use LiveCode chose it because > SuperCard is exclusively Mac. Even if we develop on Mac or Linux, the > majority of most of our income comes from Windows users, and our income is > what enables LC's income. > > So it's critically important we look past direct download counts at > livecode.com and look instead and general market share when prioritizing > platform-specific features. > > The Mac audience may be two to three times larger than Linux, but both are > niches compared to the 86% using Windows. > > The new macOS features outlined at WWDC yesterday are very exciting and I > share your enthusiasm for seeing direct support for them in LC, whether as > engine enhancements or as community-driven libraries using LC Builder's > ability to call OS APIs. > > But ideally any near-term development to support OS-specific features for > Mac or Linux would be coming from the community, so the engine team can > continue their good focus on bringing the Windows engine up to parity with > the Mac in terms of common features and robustness. > > Certainly a Feature Exchange would offset direct costs, but unless it's > large enough to hire more devs it represents an opportunity cost. > > Let's tidy up Windows right now, and if we're really itching to get going > on Mac-specific features let's see if we can use the last successful > fundraiser for extending LC Builder's API support to empower > community-driven development there. > > Along those lines, once that's in hand I'd love to see if anyone here has > time and interest to explore how we might use that API access to handle > menus in Ubuntu as they are on the Mac for better integration with Ubuntu > Unity, but that's a different thread.... > > > > For those keeping score at home, I think there are now 5: Siri, > > Google Now, Cortana, Alexa, and Dragon, serving different > > platforms. It would therefore be great to have a way to get voice > > recognition and voice feedback on all. > > There's also Mycroft AI, a free and open system that's been getting some > good news coverage lately: > https://mycroft.ai/ > > They got seed funding from a very successful Kickstarter campaign: > < > https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/aiforeveryone/mycroft-an-open-source-artificial-intelligence-for > > > > I met the devs at the SoCal Linux Expo a few months ago. Impressive team, > impressive project. And being open source, anyone can tailor it for their > needs however they want. > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World Systems > Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web > ____________________________________________________________________ > ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > -- On the first day, God created the heavens and the Earth On the second day, God created the oceans. On the third day, God put the animals on hold for a few hours, and did a little diving. And God said, "This is good." _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
