So we’re a week later than we thought for a couple of reasons: getting our voice, Kendall, up and running took a little bit more work than we thought, but we thought pushing the prototype 2 out a bit to accomodate ‘her’ was worth it. The Voice UI sounds quick, with high production values. Kendall did a good job for us speeding things up: we specifically didn’t want a voice that was plodding and assumed our customers were too. She’s snappy, and hopefully will sound good after many dozens of listens.

The other thing was some UI tinkering: getting one click access to everything one wants while keeping the UI uncluttered, and dealing with the subtle differences tween the various browser flavors. Nice.

But here we go, and we’ll be releasing this in small waves over the next coule of days.

Most recent jott: Bring Raina home after game on Sunday

Right on schedule. Sure, there are a bunch of tweaks that we are going to be making here over the next few weeks, but it’s incredibly satisfying to nail this date. Rob, Josh and Erick have been huge in getting a huge lift done here over the past week.

There’s a lot more to come in the next several weeks, but this is a great start. “Kendall”, our voice, should be coming online here in the next couple of days too…

Most recent jott: “Bring soccer bag to Grace’s classroom”