Windows Phone Thoughts: Hold A Conversation With Your PDA

Here's a recent article at The Age site that describes a prototype tool for interacting with PDAs.



"Amanda is the personal assistant of the future: she is a good listener and quick at answering back. She reads email, checks the news and weather, scans exchange rates and arranges appointments...Don't like her somewhat robotic voice? She can change it to have an Australian accent. Rather have a male butler? Amanda can arrange for Joshua to replace her, if you prefer. In fact, preference is what Amanda is all about - because she is a virtual character that resides in a personal digital assistant."

I've read of various earlier attempts at creating different personas for PDAs, but this one may be closer to a real product than the others. Still, the speech recognition processing needs such power that a separate server must be used that communicates with the PDA via WiFi.

But it kinda begs the question: If you could customize it, what kind of personality would YOU build into your Pocket PC?