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Amazon says “Thank you!” too. 😎

NPR's article "In Cambodia, Rats Are Being Trained To Sniff Out Land Mines And Save Lives" also had details about the HeroRAT training (€7,000/rat), care (very good), advantages (handler agnostic, light weight) and lifespan (6-8 years) of the African giant pouched rats used by APOPO.

Edit: Update cost from €6,000 to €7,000 based on /u/apopo_tess's more up-to-date answer elsewhere in this AMA.

... and I think there are APIs to interact with Siri in this way, fortunately. :-P

More details:

• Siri's text responses are available to iOS' accessibility APIs
  (anyone w/ an iOS device can test this using iOS' VoiceOver feature -- Settings, General, Accessibility, scroll all the way down, Accessibility Shortcut, select VoiceOver; this enables a triple-click on the home button to activate/de-activate VoiceOver.
  Activate VoiceOver and then ask Siri a question. You can then tap on Siri's response text to have VoiceOver read it; this demonstrates that Siri makes its responses available via the accessibility APIs).
• Further, braille display devices for iOS have access to the same data as VoiceOver provides.
  
• Pebble is a Made For iOS (MFi) vendor,
• therefore, Pebble should be able to access the same data as the braille display vendors can access.

QED.

Edit: BTW, the braille displays use a bluetooth connection to access the data too; if Pebble Time were to implement the same BT profile as the braille displays, it might directly access the Siri text (and more!!).

Siri responds via text; no speaker needed. Hopefully the Pebble app can extract Siri's reply text using (perhaps) accessibility APIs and then sail that on over to the PT boat.

We didn’t expect them to write code. But they can.

FWIW, ChatGPT code isn’t very good in the same way it currently writes B- essays. It’s training set content apparently emphasized quantity over quality.