[jordan_clark]

1.) Rasberry Pi 2.) USB sound card 3.) Analog mic splitter: (plus other things of course) -

Run small mic's and speakers to most commonly used rooms in house. Star Trek computer search enabled.

Missing link: send results to (x) screen.

[dekhn]

.... why not just use a mobile phone clipped to your shirt (since that's all a star trek communicator is).

[chrisrh]

Speakers to go along with the mics as well, to hear the spoken response.

[JRobertson]

CastleOS has demos that appear to be successfully demonstrating that the Kinect makes a fairly cost effective voice receiver that can cover an entire room.

[pwf]

Do you have a link to this?

Edit: Nevermind, I read that as CentOS...