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I record myself on audio 24x7 and use an AI to process the information

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Re: I record myself on audio 24x7 and use an AI to process the information

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Post by netsharc »

lbayes wrote: post #47
netsharc wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've read about that happening in Cleveland, using tech developed to find insurgents leaving IEDs in Afghanistan. Yeah, citation needed...

So glad someone else saw this, I'm not finding anything on it and I'm starting to question my own memory, as I'm quite sure I saw the original article about the Mexico program on this site. FWIW, I also recall the tech being originally used to find people who planted IEDs in Afghanistan. I'm kind of shocked about how all the articles I am finding seem to emphasize real-time police chases. Now I'm feeling super suspic…

Well, a bit more googling ( https://www.google.com/search?q=police+drone+afghanistan+rew... ) got me just 2 relevant hits.

https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/04/sheriff...

https://scholarship.law.uc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1... (search for "rewind")

I'd rather think it's because Google sucks now, and those keywords just bring up too many similar articles, but my metaphorical tinfoil hat is my hands.

Re: I record myself on audio 24x7 and use an AI to process the information

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Post by ClearAndPresent »

emilburzo wrote: post #41
roberdam wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

the device from the picture has a 5000 mAh battery (around 10hrs), and and bought a smaller one (1-2 hrs)

I must be blind, where do you list the microphone(s) you are using?

It appears to be on the Spanish language version of the blog but not the English:

https://roberdam.com/wisper.html

Although in the text it's just described as "a Chinese box" with a 5000MaH battery and the ability to record to its 32Gb of space in chunks of 30 minutes, as MP3 taking about 28mb each.

That section goes on to describe trying different microphone positions, as it makes a great difference to quality. OP originally tried it in a bag but the results were medicore, so moved to a different configuration which, although less comfortable, produced superior audio results.

Re: I record myself on audio 24x7 and use an AI to process the information

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Post by ojosilva »

emilburzo wrote: post #41
roberdam wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

the device from the picture has a 5000 mAh battery (around 10hrs), and and bought a smaller one (1-2 hrs)

I must be blind, where do you list the microphone(s) you are using?

It's pictured in the Spanish version, under "El Equipo": https://roberdam.com/wisper.html

Re: I record myself on audio 24x7 and use an AI to process the information

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Post by roberdam »

Player6225 wrote: post #56

I'm curious if there was other work you were inspired by. I have also been a bit interested in using this style of "personal database/logger/journaling"; task-agnostic input -> processing -> visualization/recall My assumption is you are just storing post-processed conclusions in a local db on your computer + raw audio for possible future re-processing, and not currently storing other media input (ala food pics)?

I'm trying to catch up with all the opensource AI stuff out there and explore the posibilities, on the spanish part of the website is a test with stable diffusion and twitter, and now I'm trying to finetune Donut document transformer.

Re: I record myself on audio 24x7 and use an AI to process the information

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Post by roberdam »

pards wrote: post #10

I think the passive part of this could be really interesting - starting with a simple "tag cloud" of keywords by frequency linking to audio snippets that mention them, it'd provide a way to index conversations during the day for future reference (or processing).

indeed, that I guess will be the best part of the expermient, but the longer one.

Re: I record myself on audio 24x7 and use an AI to process the information

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Post by lbayes »

netsharc wrote: post #61
lbayes wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So glad someone else saw this, I'm not finding anything on it and I'm starting to question my own memory, as I'm quite sure I saw the original article about the Mexico program on this site. FWIW, I also recall the tech being originally used to find people who planted IEDs in Afghanistan. I'm kind of shocked about how all the articles I am finding seem to emphasize real-time police chases. Now I'm feeling super suspic…

Well, a bit more googling ( https://www.google.com/search?q=police+drone+afghanistan+rew... ) got me just 2 relevant hits. https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/04/sheriff... https://scholarship.law.uc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1... (search for "rewind") I'd rather think it's because Google sucks now, and those keywords just bring up too many similar articles, but my metaphorical tinfoil hat is my h…

Nice job!

Your tips got me to this one, where it more clearly spells out the "rewind" capability. I think the problem was that the tech was attached to a low-flying, piloted plane, not drones.

https://www.csoonline.com/article/2226742/record-and-rewind-...

Whew! It feels better to set my tinfoil hat down on the table next to me...

Re: I record myself on audio 24x7 and use an AI to process the information

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Post by riiri778 »

TOMDM wrote: post #49
unstatusthequo wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Dropping after the fact still means it was recorded, this violating two party notice statutes.

What if it was never written to disk? The identification and trimming happening before any audio is actually saved. Is picking someone else up on microphone at all a violation of two party consent? For example walking past someone in public with a loudspeaker call active.

I think there is even legal precedent for that. Dragnet surveillance recording of all phone calls. It was argued that recordings are only "stored". Judge order is needed for "retrieval", that may be several weeks later.

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Post by gruez »

>RELATIONSHIP THERMOMETER

>According to studies on couple relationships, it is possible to predict with an accuracy of up to 90% if the couple is going to divorce by studying the interactions, specifically the relationship between positive and negative interactions between the couple

Apparently the studies that were used to reach that conclusion does no such thing and were hilariously flawed.

https://slate.com/human-interest/2010/03/a-dissection-of-joh...

>The upshot? What Gottman did wasn’t really a prediction of the future but a formula built after the couples’ outcomes were already known. [...] The fundamental problem is that no matter how many equations, even quite similar ones, Gottman generates, we have no real idea of his forecasting power because of the way he reports his data

Re: I record myself on audio 24x7 and use an AI to process the information

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Post by garblegarble »

lbayes wrote: post #37
unsupp0rted wrote: post #9

I remember an Asimov short story in which scientists developed a machine that could see backward in time. If I recall correctly, the upshot was the government became terrified because any machine that can see 1000 years into the past can also see 1000 milliseconds into the past and therefore functionally be used to spy on anyone in real time.

There was an article some years ago (2 or 3?), that described a drone (or drones?) that flew 24/7 over Mexico city taking high resolution video of the entire city at all times. Whenever there was a crime, the police could zoom into that location at the time of the crime and then run backwards to see where the vehicles came from. They then knocked on that door. I'm disappointed that I can't seem to find it using Googl…

The term for this is 'WAMI' - Wide Area Motion Imagery[1]. Here's a Bloomberg article about an instance of it in Baltimore[2] (although this wasn't where I learned about it first, like you I can't find my original source either)

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide-area_motion_imagery

2: https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-baltimore-secret-sur...

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