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== Proposal Overview ==
* For better or for worse, the smartphone is already the User Agent for most people. On the other hand, the form factor of the smartphone is ill-suited for the house. This proposal is about providing a device that complements the smartphone for use in the house.
* The '''Home User Agent''' is a set of devices that lets users interact with their smartphone(s) by voice, from any room in the house.
* As a first delivery of features, the Home User Agent lets users receive/reject/place phone calls, hands-free, and serves as an interphone. Post-launch updates progressively increase the set of available features, including managing schedules and connectivity to other devices in the house (e.g. the SmartTV).
== Technical documentation ==
* Each room is outfitted with a cheap speaker/microphone device (the ''Drone'') that relays instructions to a smarter device (the ''Queen''), connected to the Smartphone. Each Drone can be used as a voice interface for the smartphone.
* Speech Recognition and Text To Speech can be handled either by the Queen or by the Smartphone, to be determined. This can be changed post-launch.
* An application running on the Smartphone handles telephony and contacts, ensures synchronization of data between the phone and the Queen. Longer-term, this application serves to interact with specific applications on the SmartPhone.
* In a house with more than one Queen, each Drone can be paired with one Queen or more.
* For the MVP, this proposal targets only recent Android Smartphones.
* [https:// .... description ]
== Presentations ==
* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7cLrZgzp2TaU1FJaXc1Mmc4VmM/view?usp=sharing The Home User Agent (draft)]
* For better or for worse, the smartphone is already the User Agent for most people. On the other hand, the form factor of the smartphone is ill-suited for the house. This proposal is about providing a device that complements the smartphone for use in the house.
* The '''Home User Agent''' is a set of devices that lets users interact with their smartphone(s) by voice, from any room in the house.
* As a first delivery of features, the Home User Agent lets users receive/reject/place phone calls, hands-free, and serves as an interphone. Post-launch updates progressively increase the set of available features, including managing schedules and connectivity to other devices in the house (e.g. the SmartTV).
== Technical documentation ==
* Each room is outfitted with a cheap speaker/microphone device (the ''Drone'') that relays instructions to a smarter device (the ''Queen''), connected to the Smartphone. Each Drone can be used as a voice interface for the smartphone.
* Speech Recognition and Text To Speech can be handled either by the Queen or by the Smartphone, to be determined. This can be changed post-launch.
* An application running on the Smartphone handles telephony and contacts, ensures synchronization of data between the phone and the Queen. Longer-term, this application serves to interact with specific applications on the SmartPhone.
* In a house with more than one Queen, each Drone can be paired with one Queen or more.
* For the MVP, this proposal targets only recent Android Smartphones.
* [https:// .... description ]
== Presentations ==
* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7cLrZgzp2TaU1FJaXc1Mmc4VmM/view?usp=sharing The Home User Agent (draft)]
