Project Link Proposal/The Home User Agent

Proposal Overview

For better or for worse, the smartphone is already the User Agent for most people. On the other hand, the form factor of the smartphone is ill-suited for the house. This proposal is about providing a device that complements the smartphone for use in the house.
The Home User Agent is a set of devices that lets users interact with their smartphone(s) by voice, from any room in the house.
As a first delivery of features, the Home User Agent lets users receive/reject/place phone calls, hands-free, and serves as an interphone. Post-launch updates progressively increase the set of available features, including managing schedules and connectivity to other devices in the house (e.g. the SmartTV).

Each room is outfitted with a cheap speaker/microphone device (the Drone) that relays instructions to a smarter device (the Queen), connected to the Smartphone. Each Drone can be used as a voice interface for the smartphone.
Speech Recognition and Text To Speech can be handled either by the Queen or by the Smartphone, to be determined. This can be changed post-launch.
An application running on the Smartphone handles telephony and contacts, ensures synchronization of data between the phone and the Queen. Longer-term, this application serves to interact with specific applications on the SmartPhone.
In a house with more than one Queen, each Drone can be paired with one Queen or more.
For the MVP, this proposal targets only recent Android Smartphones.
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