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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 tim-fan »

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).

Further to indexing conversations, it would be interesting/helpful to be able to pull out:

  * conversation length
  * participants
  * location
So you could search for, say, that long conversation I had in the park with Bob.

I'm not sure how easy it is to identify/track different participants in a conversation.

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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 m-watson »

magic_hamster wrote: post #51
kettleballroll wrote: post #26

As you'd be recording all of your conversations, this is illegal under some legislations, unless all your conversation partners agree with being recorded/their convos being stored.

In some countries it's enough for one party to consent, which can be you, so it's legal.

In the US it even varies by state, which has gotten people in trouble with recorded phone calls.

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

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Post by edw519 »

Too bad Abbot and Costello aren't around to attend a standup with a bunch of people using your app.

  - Robert Robert what did you do yesterday End Robert
  - Robert I met with Robert in accounting to finish Jira 12392 story on the Robertson patches End Robert
  - Robert Then I took a break to have coffee and watch a Julia Roberts short with Robert in System Admin End Robert
  - Robert Robert what are you going to do today End Robert
  - Robert It depends if Robert Roberts has internet access End Robert
  - Robert If he doesn't, that'll be the end of Robert Roberts End Robert
  - Robert No impediments for either Robert in the Robert epic End Robert
  - Robert Robert's on Help Desk, Jean Robert's in Code Review, and Sam Robertson's running the Roberton's retrospective End Robert
  - Robert But then who is Robert Robertson? End Robert
  - Robert Oh Robert Robertson's our scrum master! End Robert

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

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Post by PebblesRox »

capableweb wrote: post #57
counttheforks wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure if that's what Google is doing. More than half of my queries result in a "Let me google that for you" response where it pulls up a search page.

Apple's "assistant" is similarly useless. The best use case I have for it is when I'm driving and pondering about something silly so I ask it: "How does X do Y?" or similar, and the response in 99% of the cases is "I can't show this to you right now".

Alexa takes "the customer is always right" a little too far:

  Me: Alexa, when do babies double their birth weight?
  Alexa: According to an Amazon customer, some time within the first month. Does that answer your question?
  Me: No!
(The true answer is more like 5 months: https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/infant-and-todd....)

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

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Post by fl0id »

Barrin92 wrote: post #90
gruez wrote: post #69

>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-…

literally horoscopes for tech bros. I am starting to be slightly concerned that there's actually people out there who think some sentiment analysis python package is going to tell them what their individual relationships are like.

Oh there definitely are.

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

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Post by wartijn_ »

Are you planning to combine it with other info? Your smartwatch already knows how long you've slept, getting that info directly to your database seems more efficient and less error prone. The same goes for the amount of money you've spend, if your bank allows you to export that info it'll save you a step. Your bank doesn't know what you've bought, only the total cost, time and shop, but if you scan and upload your receipts and use ocr you'll have a detailed record of that too.

And you could also keep track of your location, so you know where you had a conversation or at what gas station you spend 250,000

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

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Post by MikePlacid »

recuter wrote: post #20
albertzeyer wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, is there a list of every command a human can execute or can work with?

Yes, actually, here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_English If one were to take the 25,000 word Oxford Pocket English Dictionary and take away the redundancies of our rich language and eliminate the words that can be made by putting together simpler words, we find that 90% of the concepts in that dictionary can be achieved with 850 words. The shortened list makes simpler the effort to learn spelling and pronunci…

> Here it is deployed in favor of much needed disciplinary action for two Scottish people

There was a moment when call centers started deploying “just say it” en masse - and I was literally in panic. Luckily, they brought back “or enter” pretty soon and also en masse.

To be fair to robots you protein constructs are not much better. In a two mile radius of our company’s office humans trained themselves to understand Russian accent pretty well. But beyond that…

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

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Post by dorkwood »

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…

I first heard about this on Radiolab. Maybe you heard it there too?

>> In 2004, when casualties in Iraq were rising due to roadside bombs, Ross McNutt and his team came up with an idea. With a small plane and a 44 mega-pixel camera, they figured out how to watch an entire city all at once, all day long. Whenever a bomb detonated, they could zoom onto that spot and then, because this eye in the sky had been there all along, they could scroll back in time and see - literally see - who planted it.

https://radiolab.org/episodes/eye-sky

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

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Post by PaulHoule »

commitpizza wrote: post #13
PaulHoule wrote: post #3

If you are going through that much trouble you might as well get a WiFi scale, wear a tracker that has an API, etc. I’ve definitely thought about taking speech-to-text notes at work, nice to see somebody did it.

Well yes, but this is a much cheaper option. Instead of having many smart gadgets you only need one. The mobile phone or some other microphone but that is the most obvious option. Instead of paying hundreds of dollars for all these gadgets that have to be charged and kept safe you can buy cheap variants and still have basically the same benefits.

But your time is exchangable for money. (Something almost never reflected in hobby behavior: that's why the crafts store has 130 kinds of acrylic yarn and 1 kind of wool yarn.)

A $150 scale is expensive but buys a very small amount of software development.

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