Special guest Ryan Sipes from Mycroft joins us to discuss his ambitious projects & fulfilling the mission of an open source project.

Plus our thoughts on the impending Bot revolution, the “Internet of APIs” it all depends on & the massive shift that bots could cause in the industry.

We start it all off with a new Coding Challenge!

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216 Coding Challenge

• Creating a skill | Core

• GitHub – the7erm/mycroft-skill-jupiter-broadcasting: My 2nd attempt at creating a mycroft skill

Meet Mycroft

• Mycroft: Open Source Artificial Intelligence | Indiegogo | Indiegogo

• Adapt Intent Parser by Mycroft

The Adapt Intent Parser is an open source software library for converting natural language into machine readable data structures. Adapt is lightweight and streamlined and is designed to run on devices with limited computing resources. Adapt takes in natural language and outputs a data structure that includes the intent, a match probability, a tagged list of entities. The software was developed at Mycroft AI by a team led by Sean Fitzgerald, formerly one of the developers of both Siri and Amazon Echo.

• Mycroft Core

Mycroft Core is the primary module that makes up the Mycroft Artificial Intelligence platform. Mycroft makes use of the Adapt Intent Parser, Speech-to-Text software, and Text-to-Speech. The idea behind the platform is to be able to voice enable any device and turn it into a smart personal assistant, able to perform a variety of tasks. Mycroft is often used to refer to the hardware product produced by Mycroft AI, Inc. – so to avoid confusion, the software stack is often referred to as “Mycroft Core”.

• Mimic by Mycroft and VocaliD

Mimic is a fast, lightweight Text-to-speech engine developed by Mycroft A.I. and VocaliD, based on Carnegie Mellon University’s FLITE software. Mimic takes in text and reads it out loud to create a high quality voice. Mimic’s low-latency, small resource footprint, and good quality voices set it apart from other open source text-to-speech projects.

• OpenSTT | An Open Source Speech-To-Text Project

The OpenSTT project is aimed at creating an open source speech-to-text model that can be used by individuals and company to allow for high accuracy, low-latency conversion of speech into text.

Currently there are no open source speech-to-text models available, instead this technology is locked deep within large companies either tied to only their own proprietary products and services or behind expensive APIs that, in many cases, don’t respect user privacy.

OpenSTT is being led by members of the Mycroft A.I. team as they strive to create a powerful voice interface and artificial intelligence platform. Our goal is to make this technology available to as many people as possible. We do this by leading development of open source projects, OpenSTT is one of these initiatives.

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Straight from the horse’s mouth, we get updates on the code drop coming from the Mycroft project. Plus some details about our SCALE plans & NVIDIA’s Linux powered CES demo.

Plus Chris owns up to his 2015 predictions & more!

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Pre-Show:

• Nvidia Drive PX2 – Live-Demo (CES 2016) – YouTube

• NVIDIA’s Drive PX 2 is a liquid-cooled supercomputer for cars

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With the Drive PX2, NVIDIA is doubling-down on the vision it had last year: Instead of just enabling high-end PC gaming, NVIDIA’s GPUs can also be used to perform the crazy levels of computation necessary for self-driving cars.

Follow Up / Catch Up

World Without Linux Final Episode: Free Burger

In 1991, Linus Torvalds starting working on Linux “just for fun” as a “hobby, nothing professional.” Today, Linux is the world’s largest collaborative project in the history of computing. It powers the Internet, the cloud, the world’s stock exchanges, supercomputers, embedded devices and more.

Semi-Official SCaLE 14x Jupiter Broadcasting thread

Register![1] and use the coupon code LAS40 for a 40% discount; thanks /u/irabinovitch [2] !

SCaLE 14x: The Southern California Linux Expo is upon us again! I’m looking forward to seeing & sharing with everyone in the free software community in Southern California this year; last year was a blast.

SCaLE 14x is January 21-24, 2016 at the Pasadena Convention Center[3]

Tentative Breakfast Friday morning (per LAS398)? Let me know. There are tons of restaurants in the area.

Linux Action Show POWER Brunch

• Jupiter Broadcasting Meetup Page

UbuCon portal

On the night before the event we will meet at around 19:00 for an informal gathering to get to know each other. Details to be added soon!

TING

• Ting – mobile that makes sense

Mycroft

• Mycroft: Open Source Artificial Intelligence | Indiegogo

• Mycroft Community

• Mycroft update from Ryan

• Here comes the source!

Linux Academy

• Linux Academy | Linux and AWS Online Training

Main Linux problems on the desktop, 2016 edition

In this regularly updated article, which is without doubt the most comprehensive list of Linux distributions’ problems on the entire Internet, we only discuss their main problems and deficiencies (which may be the reason why some people say Linux distros are not ready for the desktop) while everyone should keep in mind that there are areas where Linux has excelled other OSes: excellent package management, multiple platforms and architectures support out of the box, usually excellent stability, no widely circulating viruses or malware, complete system reinstallation is almost never required, besides Linux is extremely customizable, easily scripted and it’s free as in beer.

Again, let me reiterate it, this article is primarily about Linux distributions, however many issues listed below affect the Linux kernel as well.

DigitalOcean

• DigitalOcean: SSD Cloud Server, VPS Server, Simple Cloud Hosting

Chris Owns up to his 2015 Predictions

• 2015 Linux Predictions | Linux Action Show 345

With 2015 around the corner we own up to our predictions for 2014, we admit to what we got wrong, and what we got right. Then we look forward to 2015 and go on the record for the big developments we expect to see.

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