[12:36] <AlanBell> the developer is the_fred who pops into #ubuntu-uk fairly regularly
[13:01] <Pendulum> I wonder what it uses to recognize speech (sorry, correct words failing to show up in my head)
[13:02] <Pendulum> because isn't that where there are generally issues with things being accepted into Linux distros? (that it tends to be a non-open source)
[13:29] <AlanBell> Pendulum: I am not sure if it does the recognition on the device or if it sends the audio to the googleplex to be done there
[13:29] <AlanBell> I think siri on the apple devices does the speech recognition bit in the datacentre rather than on the device
[14:53] <Pendulum> AlanBell: ah, right.
[14:54] <Pendulum> that would make sense since it says you have to have the android app as well as the one submitted to ubuntu