I think his Microphone maybe a bit low... And You may need to Do some Speech recognition training... with the speech engine.... loads of reading... start slowly then build up speed with it!
I love It!
Perhaps i may add it to myweb site if you want to send me a blog to go with it!
Also He may need to be edited ie: some of the phrases Australians used "slang" compliments just like us Cockney English need to be hardcoded into his brain so he understand correctly... and even his responses to make him sound more Oz.
by using the dictation PAD you can see How the speech engine recognizes certain words and talor your RECOGNITION in the HALBRAIN.db tables database.... although we spell G'Day <<< the computer maynot recognize the sound with the spelling..... with the dictation pad you can get the computers spellings....
Thinking about all the different dialects of English and slang terms!
All Me DATA needs now is a LATEX MASK... taking him from Robot to CYBORG (well just top half)....
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