'We were amazed by how far we could get with these free, open solutions, and we wanted others to be similarly inspired.' 'We saw Jasper as a great way to show developers whatвЂ™s possible within the realm of open source,' he says. Much of the voice recognition system, for example, is built on CMUSphinx, CMUCLTK and Phonetisaurus. And it's open source, meaning anyone can take the designs and build their own and modify it as need be.Д«ut like most open source projects, Jasper stands on the shoulders of existing open source code. It's more like Siri or Google Now, but instead of running on your smartphone, it operates from a small, stand-alone unit with a microphone and an internet connection.

No, Jasper isn't as sophisticated as its science fictional inspiration. >It's like Siri, but instead of running on your smartphone, it operates from a small, stand-alone unit with a microphone and an internet connection 'That was even the initial project name - 'J.A.R.V.I.S.' - until we decided that it was too unoriginal,' says one of the project's creators, Charles Marsh.

Inspired by the Iron Man movies, two Princeton students have built a J.A.R.V.I.S. Some of this is still very much in the realm of science fiction, but not all of it. It manages the lights and security system in his home, helps him pilot his Iron Man suits, and even assists with his research. In the Iron Man movies, Tony Stark uses a voice-controlled computer assistant called J.A.R.V.I.S.

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