{"id":6137,"date":"2016-08-29T22:45:16","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T02:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=6137"},"modified":"2016-08-30T12:51:39","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T16:51:39","slug":"siris-ancestors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/siris-ancestors\/","title":{"rendered":"Siri&#8217;s ancestors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6139\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Ethel-Jane-Cain.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6139\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6139\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Ethel-Jane-Cain-sm.jpg\" alt=\"Ethel &quot;Jane&quot; Cain courtesy Site Point\" width=\"225\" height=\"148\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6139\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ethel &#8220;Jane&#8221; Cain courtesy Site Point<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. Thanks to Alex Walker and Australia&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sitepoint.com\">Sitepoint<\/a> Design for this note about <a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Siri-Ancestors.pdf\">early voice powered UI systems.<\/a> In 1936 the first automated talking clock called TIM was created in the UK. Ms Ethel (Jane) Cain was the first voice of the clock from 1936 until 1963 &#8211; winning the audition of some 15,000 UK Postal employee telephone operators.<\/p>\n<p>After Apple&#8217;s ads and the Big Bang Theory TV comedy show everyone knows about <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Siri\">Siri<\/a> and her marvellous ability to find information you request of her\u00a0by voice.<\/p>\n<p>Sitepoint was recommended to me by my eldest daughter as a source for good modern reference books on topics related to programming and the web.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. Thanks to Alex Walker and Australia&#8217;s Sitepoint Design for this note about early voice powered UI systems. In 1936 the first automated talking clock called TIM was created in the UK. Ms Ethel (Jane) Cain was the first voice &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/siris-ancestors\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,45],"tags":[553,552,554],"class_list":["post-6137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activities-other","category-people","tag-ancestors","tag-siri","tag-site-point"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6137"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6165,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6137\/revisions\/6165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}