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It was pocketsphinx. Automated transcription would probably be pretty sad.
I think the non-pocket version (Sphinx4) should be more capable, no?
That may be. I haven't had a chance to look into that version
Google Home
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Re: Google Home
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But do you think that free software can keep up against these giants? In the near future, it will all be about having large amounts of data, and processing power; it will be less and less about the actual algorithms. I'm afraid the only way out will be to rethink the economy.
I think a neat solution is home-serving. A little box with big storage which acts as a hub for your family's digital life. It relays all your devices, gathers all info they're spitting out, and works on it. Results are fed back to the UIs. When you're out and about, your devices tunnel home automatically, knowing the endpoint is trustworthy (which is more than can be said about traditional VPNs). All your photos, twe…
>Tor could finally work as intended, with millions of boxes in the network, all handling each other's traffic.
Ultimately you'll never escape the fundamental flaw of Tor, which is that I, as a moderate bandwidth user, don't want to subsidize some leech's desire to download weird fetish porn in 4K with my connection.
I live in Canada where the scumbag broadband companies all collude to keep prices exorbitantly high, and I pay a lot of money for what would be considered bottom-tier garbage service in e.g. South Korea.
I don't run Tor because ultimately I want to use the bandwidth I pay for.
Re: Google Home
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Maybe I'm parsing your tone wrong, but what is so outlandish/surprising about people liking features but not the implications of them? (or often, of the way they are implemented, see every cloud vs local software discussion ever) E.g. cheald's comment above is pretty clear "I always wanted that, but I fear its implementation"
I think you parsed it correctly. My surprise is more about people watching a keynote fully knowing that most of the stuff announced will be ran by Google, and still being outraged about "the privacy implications." I'm not sure what they expected. A fully open source implementation with pre packaged Docker images so you can deploy your own cluster and petabytes of training data? The truth about a lot of these services…
> most of the stuff announced will be ran by Google, and still being outraged about "the privacy implications." I'm not sure what they expected.
In other words: "It's Google, why are they outraged that we're encroaching further on their privacy? What did they expect?"
At least you guys are honest about being evil, now.
Re: Google Home
#454Please, please, please be a completely open, extensible platform... I want to be able to control my Apple TV with my Google Home device. I want to be able to control my Phillips Hue and LiFX bulbs. I want to be able to build my own custom home automation server endpoints and point my Google Home commands at them. I want to be able to remote start my car with a voice command. I want to be able to control my Harmony re…
How will the companies trap you into their proprietary walled garden if they let you change the settings?
Re: Google Home
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> All of which is moot to the original point: that people can choose whether or not this equipment is in their environment or not. Effectively they cannot. Absolutely. Just pointing out that we're on the path to adding always on cloud connected far field microphones in every other house in the country. Good luck "choosing" to not be listened to. The largest danger is self-censorship. "What is the risk somebody is lis…
I believe you're now arguing my initial point for me. Thank you.
That was the intent all along. I am supporting your point, not arguing it :)
Re: Google Home
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Most people put things in the dishwasher or in the oven and then turn it on right there and then. Wanting the ability to turn it on remotely after you've put the necessary things in it is an unusual edge case, and one most people wouldn't pay extra for. Plus... An API to remotely turn on your oven is really dangerous if it isn't completely secure. I don't think I'd trust any IoT company to make one I'd have in my hou…
Most of the time you have to pre-heat the oven before you start baking stuff. And for the dishwasher, a lot of energy-saving plans make electricity cheaper in the evening/night so plenty of people load the dishwasher during the day and then turn it on at night. This is what my family has been doing for decades and it's what I'd also do if I had a dishwasher at home.
A remote control dishwasher doesn't solve the "forgot to put it on" problem. It's still relying on forgetful humans. What you need is an autonomous dishwasher that puts itself on if it's full of dirty dishes and the electricity cost is low enough.
Solutions that solve the wrong problem are not solutions.
Re: Google Home
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I've switched to DuckDuckGo and "paused" various activities within my Google account settings. Still, I can't help wondering if records I've deleted there are simply my copies and they have their own backups stashed somewhere.
Google is known to never delete anything, not even intermediate revisions.
Interesting. Do you have a reference for that? I'd be interested in more information about what search information (amongst other things) they keep.
Re: Google Home
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Freebase data dump is available for download for free. And so is Wikipedia and Dbpedia. And so i common crawl and webdatacommons dumps What are you doing with that ? - https://developers.google.com/freebase/#freebase-rdf-dumps - http://wiki.dbpedia.org/ - http://webdatacommons.org/ - https://dumps.wikimedia.org/
How useful is an aging Freebase dump from last year? How useful is it next year? Old outdated data isn't that useful? There is no alternative to Freebase, and oth companies bought companies to have access to an alternative. Microsoft bought Powerset company for Bing, IBM bought Wekko company for Watson, Googe closed down Freebase to use it in-house. And everone else is very "happy" about Google.
Frankly, I have used freebase in one of the project and I then moved to Dbpedia because its content seemed better. I would like to understand how you are using it that Freebase seems the only alternative ?
Re: Google Home
#459Earlier quoted context omitted.
Most of the time you have to pre-heat the oven before you start baking stuff. And for the dishwasher, a lot of energy-saving plans make electricity cheaper in the evening/night so plenty of people load the dishwasher during the day and then turn it on at night. This is what my family has been doing for decades and it's what I'd also do if I had a dishwasher at home.
A remote control dishwasher doesn't solve the "forgot to put it on" problem. It's still relying on forgetful humans. What you need is an autonomous dishwasher that puts itself on if it's full of dirty dishes and the electricity cost is low enough. Solutions that solve the wrong problem are not solutions.
And solutions that don't understand the problem aren't solutions ;)
In the dishwasher case, sometimes i'm forgetting, others i just want it to go on at a specific time. Sure, I could fiddle with the current method of a button that adds +1 hour wait time when pressed (and doing math in my head to figure out when 1am is...), or it could have yet another clock i need to reset when the power goes out and i could schedule it via time, but those are clunky and have a poor interface.
I don't want my washer going on it's own, we often load it as much as possible before turning it on to avoid wasting electricity and water, that means it may sit there a few days 70% full waiting for a few more dishes before we start it. And if electricity is cheapest while i have guests over, I don't want it running then (as it's pretty loud and front-and-center in our house). Also dishwashers have a bunch of settings (most of them i believe useless, but they are there anyway). Being able to tell the dishwasher to turn on tonight when i realized that i forgot to start it right as i'm going to bed would be convenient.
It's not revolutionary or anything, just a small nice-to-have. Just like how having a connected thermostat has made it nicer to be able to adjust the temperature from the couch or bed, and how having "smart" light switches makes it nice to turn on the fan or turn off the porch light without having to get up. Nothing that will change the world, but each one is a small improvement in my life.
Re: Google Home
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Yeah, bullshit was a hard term, I am sorry, but I just can not see how these things require a specific "home" device; - grocery list: So some kind of Todo list. But you can do that with your mobile computation device, or just take notes physically? - order $thing: I do not think that humans need more convenient buying-experiences than what is already there (think Amazon, food-delivery services, etc.). I guess most pe…
I recently got an Echo and the shopping list feature is great, even given I'm outside the US and can't use the ordering functionality. It's very easy (don't have to get phone out or find paper) to say "Alexa, add Cornflakes to my shopping list" and then when I'm at the shop, have a live list to check off. The timer function is simple but effective as well. "Alexa, set a timer for 10 minutes" when cooking pasta. I get…
Out of curiosity, as I've not seen it - how does Alexa / Amazon present the list, when you have made it? Is there an app of some kind, or webpage?