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I'm confused - the title says "like Friend" but this appears to be a rebrand of the existing Friend pendant?
I think they mean "Friend-like" pendant. This appears to be an open source implementation of the Friend pendant.
This renamed from Friend, and still (as of this comment) refers to itself as Friend in the home page footer links to the two variations of the product, Friend and Friend Dev Kit.
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I personally have wanted something like this for years -- but at the same time im anti surveillance - what would be interesting is "anti-surveillance surveillance"
Imagine placing these in the planter in a conference room... board room, green room. Stick one in the head-liner of an SUV used by political folks.
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(also not sure why "LED" is listed as a feature on the "connectivity" section...
I had posted earlier about a redditor who wanted to make a thing similar to this with whisper and such, for transcribing conversations at a corporate conference...
Makes me want a wearable white noise generator, except it's specifically tuned to jam speech transcription AI.
Seriously. It's bad enough sometimes that you go to friends house and have an Alexa responding to every half word. Now we have to put up with this? For what actual gain? What percentage of a normal friendly conversation is something you want to actually review and document. Less than 5%?
Been using it for months, really like it!
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Also illegal in Belgium, and presumably many other European countries, without prior notification. Spying on people is not cool.
One person's spying is another person's whistleblowing. For example, a commonly-held view online is that it should be legal to record interactions with police. By your definition, however, that would be "spying", as the police may not necessarily consent.
It's generally only recording private conversations that's illegal.
It feels like you didn't think about the differences between the two situations at all
Genuinely curious if people think this is a product, solving a real problem? My mind goes to critical privacy rights and would likely require offline use?
It is a product. It is something people will buy. Lots of people just don't care about privacy that much, and the privacy risk factors with this are potentially lower than for other things people use with roughly the same level of "realness".
Garbage people are a large and lucrative addressable market.
I'm confused - the title says "like Friend" but this appears to be a rebrand of the existing Friend pendant?
I agree the title was a bit confusing. There were actually two separate AI pendant products, both named Friend. My understanding is that this is one of them, and they changed the name shortly after the other was released. Edit: ah seems the title has been updated
Been using it for months, really like it!
I have been using it on and off for a few months since getting the device delivered through the kickstarter funding campaign . The code base keeps changing frequently and isn’t stable . But there is an active and helpful discord channel . Initially there was an option to bring your own API keys from open ai and deepgram . But now the ability to bring own api keys seems to be gone and that will concern me about privac…
is this the same thing Avi Schiffmann is peddling ?
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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 local…