Open the pod bay doors, please, HAL

[zeitghost]

Arduino shield goes all Siri-like | Electronics Weekly

And now you can do it with an Arduino.

For dear old Freako, this relates to an Arduino shield that does voice recognition.

[NickFitz]

And yesterday, Google started giving away their natural language parser: Research Blog: Announcing SyntaxNet: The World’s Most Accurate Parser Goes Open Source

So convert speech to text and feed it into that and you can be murdered entirely by malevolent open source software and hardware