Question: Lorraine Garland was notably a personal assistant of an Author born in which year ?

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The Flash Girls: The Flash Girls are a now defunct folk music duo based out of Minneapolis, Minnesota. .  The duo consisted of Emma Bull, a noted science fiction author, and Lorraine Garland, also known as "The Fabulous Lorraine".  Garland is also notable as Neil Gaiman's personal assistant; the group formed at a Guy Fawkes Day party at Gaiman's home.  The connections that both Bull and Garland had with the science fiction and fantasy communities allowed them to have an unusually notable group of people writing songs for and with them, including Jane Yolen, Alan Moore, and Neil Gaiman.  These songs are mixed in with their own original works, traditional songs such as Star of the County Down and Lily of the West, as well as poems put to music, including works by Dorothy Parker and A.A. Milne.

Vlingo: Vlingo was a speech recognition software company co-founded by speech-to-text pioneers Mike Phillips (later co-founder and CEO of Sense Labs, Inc) and John Nguyen in 2006.  It was best known for its intelligent personal assistant and knowledge navigator, also named Vlingo, which functioned as a personal assistant application for Symbian, Android, iPhone, BlackBerry, and other smartphones. Vlingo was acquired by speech recognition giant Nuance Communications in 2012.

Voice Mate: Voice Mate formerly called "Quick Voice" and later on as "Q Voice" is an intelligent personal assistant and knowledge navigator which is only available as a built-in application for various LG smartphones.  The application uses a natural language user interface to answer questions, make recommendations, and perform actions by delegating requests to a set of Web services.  It is based on the Maluuba personal assistant.

Extreme: Personal Assistant: Extreme: Personal assistant is a virtual personal assistant developed and published by Multiverse app for Android in May 2016.

Lorraine Garland: Lorraine Garland (born 15 February 1963) is a folk musician from Minneapolis, Minnesota.  She sang and played fiddle with science fiction author Emma Bull in folk duo The Flash Girls, with the band Folk UnderGround, and in the goth / folk / rock / traditional Celtic duo Lorraine a' Malena with Malena Teves, which whom she also contributed to Chris Ewen's The Hidden Variable.  She is currently one half of the folk / rock / Celtic duo Paul and Lorraine with Paul Score.

Dean Weber: Dean Weber (born August 12, 1962) is an American entrepreneur, computer scientist and inventor.  Described by many as "the father of the intelligent personal assistant", Weber was credited for the commercial launch of the first personal assistant called IVAN, in 1999.  During that time, Weber was founder of One Voice Technologies, an Artificial Intelligence company founded in 1998 in San Diego, CA.  At One Voice, Weber was instrumental in launching voice solutions worldwide to millions of users and ultimately sold his patent portfolio to Apple in 2010 prior to Apple's launch of Siri.

Neil Gaiman: Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman ( ; born Neil Richard Gaiman, 10 November 1960) is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre, and films.  His notable works include the comic book series "The Sandman" and novels "Stardust", "American Gods", "Coraline", and "The Graveyard Book".  He has won numerous awards, including the Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker awards, as well as the Newbery and Carnegie medals.  He is the first author to win both the Newbery and the Carnegie medals for the same work, "The Graveyard Book" (2008).  In 2013, "The Ocean at the End of the Lane" was voted Book of the Year in the British National Book Awards.

S Voice: S Voice is an intelligent personal assistant and knowledge navigator which is only available as a built-in application for the Samsung Galaxy S III, S III Mini (including NFC Variant), S4, S4 Mini, S4 Active, S5, S5 Mini, S II Plus, Note II, Note 3, Note 4, Note 10.1, Note 8.0, Stellar, Mega, Grand, Avant, Core, Ace 3, Tab 3 7.0, Tab 3 8.0, Tab 3 10.1, Galaxy Camera, and other 2013 or later Samsung Android devices.  The application uses a natural language user interface to answer questions, make recommendations, and perform actions by delegating requests to a set of Web services.  It is based on the Vlingo personal assistant.

Automated personal assistant: An automated personal assistant or an Intelligent Personal Assistant is a mobile software agent that can perform tasks, or services, on behalf of an individual based on a combination of user input, location awareness, and the ability to access information from a variety of online sources (such as weather conditions, traffic congestion, news, stock prices, user schedules, retail prices, etc.).

Folk UnderGround: Folk UnderGround is a musical group from Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, who blend traditional music and new songs with dark and darkly comic themes.  The members include Lorraine Garland (violin and vocals), Trevor Hartman (drums, accordion, and vocals), and Paul Score (guitar and vocals).

Supporting paragraphs: The Flash Girls Neil Gaiman
Answer: 1960