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I need a voice activity detection module (VAD) for my wearable computer. Should I roll my own, or use someone else's (open-source). My immediate need is speaker-dependent (just me), but it would be nice if I could offer up a speaker-independent version eventually.
If this one does not work for your application, perhaps look into simpler ones like the ones used in mobile telephone codecs or in Speex.
Why link to the pdf? The webpage https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/ links directly to the PDF, and gives context and other download options. It's not so easy to go back from the PDF to the webpage. Mods: I'd change the link, and the title to "...3rd Edition draft". Everyone else: please stop linking to PDFs when there is an obvious html page to link to instead.
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We need an equivalent of the hippocratic oath for software engineers: I swear by Hephaestus, the ugly god of crafts, that I shall not use my skills for controlling and tracking ...
Early in my career (it began after a discussion in a tutorial during my undergrad) I made a choice to never to use my engineering skills to build weapons. I don't believe its a morally justifiable choice in this century. It's not like I have been forced to starve as a result but it did reduce a few opportunities.
Could we say that nuclear(and other) weapons are responsible for the bringing unprecedented world peace to the world?
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> Great, these who want to build these things will simply hire people who don't subscribe to this oath ... How many doctors are willing to give up their title to do unethical stuff? An ethical code will change people's perception, and that's a big thing. It will morph the perception of Google and Facebook from cool tech companies into dark places where no decent people want to work; unless of course these companies a…
Um, how are they supposed to make money if they don't track you to a certain extent? Do they have flaws? Yes -- it's not funny what kind of things you can target for based AdWords, their internal staff probably aren't creative enough to think up ways in which their tools can be used to inflict misery. Software engineers aren't soldiers, doctors, or civil servants what kind of ethical code do you expect? How will peop…
Software engineers are surrogates for ALL jobs because software is used everywhere. When we serve medicine, we should be obliged to take the Hippocratic oath. When we serve the military or intel agencies (with a security clearance), we ARE obliged to take an formal oath of secrecy. IMHO, many other S/W roles bear no less responsibility.
I think it's time that we software infrastructuralists take our role behind the scenes as seriously as those on the front lines do.
What are good resources for beginners wanting to learn about natural language processing? Are there any good books, tutorials, courses, etc?
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Um, how are they supposed to make money if they don't track you to a certain extent? Do they have flaws? Yes -- it's not funny what kind of things you can target for based AdWords, their internal staff probably aren't creative enough to think up ways in which their tools can be used to inflict misery. Software engineers aren't soldiers, doctors, or civil servants what kind of ethical code do you expect? How will peop…
And how are cigarette companies going to make money if they are hindered in addicting you and giving you cancer? Legally of course. Software engineers are surrogates for ALL jobs because software is used everywhere . When we serve medicine, we should be obliged to take the Hippocratic oath. When we serve the military or intel agencies (with a security clearance), we ARE obliged to take an formal oath of secrecy. IMHO…
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Early in my career (it began after a discussion in a tutorial during my undergrad) I made a choice to never to use my engineering skills to build weapons. I don't believe its a morally justifiable choice in this century. It's not like I have been forced to starve as a result but it did reduce a few opportunities.
> I don't believe its a morally justifiable choice in this century. Could we say that nuclear(and other) weapons are responsible for the bringing unprecedented world peace to the world?
What are good resources for beginners wanting to learn about natural language processing? Are there any good books, tutorials, courses, etc?
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Whilst I understand the concern but just Internet is now for control and tracking (chi-na is more obvious but post someone we all know better), we cannot stop the wheel. Not knowing is even worst.
We need an equivalent of the hippocratic oath for software engineers: I swear by Hephaestus, the ugly god of crafts, that I shall not use my skills for controlling and tracking ...