15:17 <TwoNotes> TCPConnection delivers received data only 64 bytes at a time, regardless of how much was sent.

15:18 <TwoNotes> tcpconnection.pony line 25 declares a 64-byte buffer

16:26 <TwoNotes> So must use message lengths prefix on messages, and Buffer object to assemble parts

19:43 <TwoNotes> First results from my voice controlled bot, written in Pony. I asked it to suggest some moves to watch, and it replied "Let me suggest Avengers, Mummy's Shroud, and I Heart Huckabee's."

19:45 <TwoNotes> The involved speech recognition, speech synthesis, UDP and TCP comms, and interfacing to a sqlite database.

19:47 <TwoNotes> Not bad considering I had only heard about Pony a month ago. This is a rewrite of an existing program from Erlang.

20:12 <jeremyheiler> TwoNotes: very cool

20:18 <TwoNotes> Of course, now I have to refactor a lot of it, as I spotted several patterns I did not have to rewrite each time

21:13 <SeanTAllen> Nice!

21:23 <TwoNotes> One network protocol is line oriented, the other has a 16-bit length per message. But I think a single Notify class can handle both.

21:23 <TwoNotes> The "Buffer" class makes it pretty easy.

21:26 <TwoNotes> The TCPCOnnection code uses a rather tiny 64-byte receive buffer, so stuff comes in little chunks.

21:59 <TwoNotes> One little problem is that it only understands Japanese right now. :) Because I have not found a good English acoustic model for it yet.

22:00 <TwoNotes> The speech recognizer was developed at the University of Kyoto.

22:31 <shepheb> also English is one of the worst languages for recognizing. so many syllables and ways of blending adjacent syllables

22:31 <shepheb> whoops, he's gone. ah well.