Using PySpeech (http://code.google.com/p/pyspeech/ http://code.google.com/p/pyspeech/), I put together something in a couple hours last night that will listen f

Using PySpeech (http://code.google.com/p/pyspeech/ http://code.google.com/p/pyspeech/), I put together something in a couple hours last night that will listen for its name (currently "Jarvis") at the beginning or end of a sentence and offer the rest of the sentence to whichever "app" matches it most highly. Right now the "apps" are echo (I say "Jarvis, echo "a big blue house" and my computer says "a big blue house"), a 'manners' app (I say "Thanks, Jarvis" and it says "You're welcome, sir."; it also gives me time of day-appropriate greetings) and a weather app (intelligent responses to "Jarvis, weather" or "Forecast for Friday, Jarvis"). It just runs with my headset mic right now, but once I move in a few months I'll start looking for some better hardware. Alarm and appointment apps are next. Anyway, the point is that this is really easy to build yourself - most of the hard problems have been solved (I was really surprised how well Win7 speech recognition works), and you just have to write the glue.