Early Drafts of LittleBit and Might Be Talking and Moving Soon

Like other personal customizations, LittleBit can have different nicknames, voice, color, tone, etc. We’re starting with a standard male and female version – friendly and casual – for initial testing of the text-to-speech options.

So, we were going forward with this version, as early feedback was great – blue could be a boy (even shades of blues, as could pink for girls, so I made a decision to go green, my a favorite color.

We want this to be gender neutral to start, customize as you want, but as Shel said, let’s start somewhere, as it could be a giving tree that embraces generations.

I was firm on the features, as our first didn’t have five fingers, a big enough mouth and expressive face – all key to helping our MemoryMatters mission of making it accessible to all… be able to sign ASL or Indian and others, to slow down tone so someone could read lips (if they can’t quite hear or read the subtitles), help kids learn to count to ten, or their ABCs by having a fun tail, that could point to what they should look at, or even pull an apple out of a basket for A.

Yes, we’re incorporating AP Style language in a couple languages, so if it seems like you’re reading a newspaper, then you are, and then teach it your preferred slang and style from there.

All this is possible in AI (check out one of my favorite apps Hand Talk – that was well before it’s time. LittleBit is connecting animation in the next few days. Not promising we can make the deals, find open APIs, etc. but we’re trying.

And when we make integration decisions, it’s based on protection of data and personal privacy, so those rank higher on the X, Y scale.

One my favorite memories was my little girls, as they learned basic signs for milk, water, more, please, thank you, and yet one has a great picture sitting on the stairs on Halloween all dressed up, ready to go, taking one last requested parent picture, and just signed help. It’s time to go out, it’s dark enough, the house lights are on, and time to get the little bit of candy I can have tonight in my pumpkin bucket.