> http://www.meta-guide.com/home/about/best-of-the-best-videos/best-minspeak-videos

Dave’s sudden accident, and the obvious inadequacy of chatbots as real world assisitve technology has started me thinking.  Semantic Compaction Systems, such as Minspeak, a form of assistive sequential pictographic speech synthesis have just popped up on my radar for the first time.  It’s like a different kind of chatbot for real people, facing real challenges.  Minspeak reminds me of the work CereProc.com did reconstructing film critic Roger Ebert’s voice following thyroid cancer http://goo.gl/zpGnG .