RE: The Best Virtual Assistant.
The current one is everything in Tasker and on my android phone. There's really not much to see, it's just a pseudorandom script generator for a few hundred actions . For instance :
Address | intro | subject | verb | object | outro |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Excuse me | it's | time | to go to | the doctor | Bill |
Pardon me | It is | almost time | to visit | ----- | SIr |
---------- | I believe it is | your appointment | to see | --------- | ----- |
Which gives you 2x3x3x3x1x2=108 random sentences when your calendar has a reminder about your doctor appointment. Usually with a little thought I can beef them up to seem pretty varied, maybe 500 different sentences or so. I just do that for various things, adding to the array of phrases when I run into something I need.
I just read the array and pick (with the equivalent of a case/switch loop) depending on the activity and then randomize the sentence structure to sound less robotic.
There's no real way to demonstrate it unless I'm doing something, I mean, right now it just tells me the name and artist of the song and maybe the time, I don't have anything going on until after Christmas. If I were outside it checks my location and uses the Transit API to find the next bus. Oh wait, it actually just reminded me to take my vitamins (1:00pm), but now that's gone.
I'll write a post about it one day and make some examples.
Transit API? Man that's awesome, I wish we have that here. I don't think even Singapore has something like that! Gonna check Tasker out. Speaking of which, I hope your data is safe using it!
I keep my data safe by making sure no one wants it. I keep it boring. The most someone could charge by stealing my credit card is $300