[svantana]

Did you read the same article as me? From what I could gather, it's more of a challenge in robotics. Nothing seemed to indicate that the speech should be machine generated. Rather it's a matter of making a robot charismatic/impressive enough to engage the audience.

This prize doesn't seem very useful to me. If someone actually was able to pull this off, they would be better off making billions off of that tech in the marketplace instead...