The Start

So...

I've had an idea rattling around in my head for a while now, to create a natural language interface to my computer. Something similar to the speech recognition in Windows 7, so supports dictation, can open programs - generally control the computer. But I wanted it to be more flexible in terms of how I could control it, so I didn't need to follow a specific set of commands. In addition, being custom-programmed, I would be able to add other features to it like checking my emails for me.

Well that never really got going, due to natural language processing being rather tricky and me not having time to devote to it. But a few days ago, I stumbled upon Project Jarvis, a digital life assistant created by Chad Barraford. It is similar to what I had imagined I would end up with, but instead of focussing on the speech interface, he started with the functionality. While I have no need for everything that Jarvis can do, there are several features that I want to try implementing myself.

So that's it. This is the start of The Overlord. Being primarily an exercise in Python programming, it will be open-source, and any code will be released under the GPL.

Should be fun...