Aren't a lot of y'all in California? Because wearing a wire is generally illegal there...
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...
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#22I wonder if this is even legal in many places. Doesn't California require consent to be recorded? This seems like an edge case
It's called "implied consent" As long as you show people you are recording - it's legal The necklace has a visible light when listening
I am very glad that you are not my lawyer.
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#23> Open-Source: Fully open-source, empowering you to customize and enhance your experience.
Fully open source? So the AI models used are all free software with everything available?
> Live Transcription: Capture live voice and audio with human-level accuracy using OpenAI Whisper and Deepgram.
> Efficient Summarization: Get instant insights and summaries powered by ChatGPT in just 5 seconds.
Nope.
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#24Don’t wear one of these near me. I don’t want you recording our everyday conversations as a matter of habit. Ask permission first.
What about an autistic person if they could use it for real-time high level cues on the primary emotion being conveyed?
When my son was growing up there were times I wish he didn’t have to struggle or guess as much.
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#25Don’t wear one of these near me. I don’t want you recording our everyday conversations as a matter of habit. Ask permission first.
What about an autistic person if they could use it for real-time high level cues on the primary emotion being conveyed? When my son was growing up there were times I wish he didn’t have to struggle or guess as much.
Because that's not going to be reliable, and doesn't solve any of the other issues with this technology. Please don't shoehorn us into these conversations about insane privacy-invading gadgets.
(I do think AI/LLMs have a lot of potential for making life easier for autistic people, but ... this isn't it.)
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#26I’m not sure I understand: is it doing the processing? Or is it more like a Bluetooth microphone?
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#27Aren't a lot of y'all in California? Because wearing a wire is generally illegal there... https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...
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#28I wonder if this is even legal in many places. Doesn't California require consent to be recorded? This seems like an edge case
Illinois too, it's called "two-party consent".
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#29Makes me want a wearable white noise generator, except it's specifically tuned to jam speech transcription AI.
It kind of exists; here's one such video demonstrating the (not as advertised, but still kinda works) results on a microphone.\
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyeCn7HlLck
Younger ears find it excruciating though.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Move to a jurisdiction that requires all-party consent for recording. Or alternatively, get with the times and recognize that people will sometimes offload some of their mental processing onto silicon.
It makes you wonder what the legal implications are of owning an Amazon, Google or Apple device with a voice assistant turned on in one of these jurisdictions.
Voice assistants have a wake word. There is low power circuitry that is running locally listening for a specific series of syllables and a buffer of a second or two of audio.
Once that wake word circuit detects that series of syllables, then it activates the rest of the device and starts streaming the buffer and current audio into whatever systems it has for transcription (or cloud).
In many cases, this happens locally. If you have an iPhone, put it airplane mode and say "Siri, what time is it?" And it will respond - all processing is local, no recoding on the cloud for that request. Some other requests may require additional processing. "Hey Siri, where am I?" -> "To do that, you will need to turn off airplane mode."
If you have an Amazon device, enable the "Start of request sound" ( https://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=21341310011 ). With this in place, you can then hear when the wake word has been triggered.
None of these devices are constantly recording or streaming to the cloud (aside: consider the network and compute requirements if every iPhone or Android was constantly streaming sound to Apple or Google for it to be recorded).
https://www.nxp.com/design/design-center/software/embedded-s...
https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp-sr/en/latest/esp32s3...
https://www.syntiant.com/news/syntiant-low-power-wake-word-s...
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/224163648_Fully_int... (from 2010, Fully integrated 500uW speech detection wake-up circuit)