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

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This is known as life logging with adjacency to sousveillance and it’s a fascinating topic. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifelog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousveillance We in general don’t want to be watched by others, but a managed record of our own activities can be extremely valuable, and even more so if you find yourself wrongly accused. Further it can be used to shine a light on corrupt officials, one exa…

The trouble with any such footage is that it can be used against you ("as the the defendant's own records show, they were present in the murder area") but they generally won't extricate you when produced by you, since you clearly have a motivation to use it selectively. So you showing a picture of yourself reading a book during what you claim is the murder night is not an alibi, because it could have been produced at…

Why not just have the device occasionally send sha256 sums of chunks to a third party service, like Twitter tweets, where it's clear you can't forge the date of the message? If you need to produce some chunks, the matching hashes provide an independent time stamp showing you didn't just produce the content at any time. This sort of trick is already commonly done to demonstrate prior knowledge of something at a later point in time without having to reveal it just yet (if ever).

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The advent of Whisper gave me a similar idea, except instead of uploading the recording once a day, it worked by calling my computer from my phone and recording and processing in batches. Realized pretty quickly that most of my day is silent though, and would rather be able to trigger it on demand, which I haven't gotten around to.

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Interesting work, glad to see I am not the only crazy one left in the life logging scene after all these years. Have been lifelogging since 2004-ish, and built a few custom bits of software and hardware to support it. I don't record 24x7 anymore, but I used to. Now my recordings are limited mostly to my office environment, and when I am out and about using a Sensecam-like device with custom firmware. When in my offic…

> Have been lifelogging since 2004-ish

Hopefully new advances in AI will let you try new things with your old recordings

> How's the audio quality on those devices you link to in other comments?

Decent, quality is directly proportional to the distance between the microphone and the mouth, but can't expect too much from 30$ devices.

>and always struggled to come up with a viable algorithm and model to differentiate "background chatter" from the main conversation

Yes, that's a big problem to solve, you can try Pyannote's Diarization https://lablab.ai/t/whisper-transcription-and-speaker-identi...

that will be a next step for the experience

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

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I‘d be interested in knowing of any cases where someone who recorded their own activities used it as an alibi. Right now it's all theoretical. Dash cams are really strong evidence in traffic court, but this isn’t criminal so it has a lower bar. From the other end, body cam footage is powerful when worn by police, and cell phone evidence by bystanders are also strong evidence.

The body cam footage is a good example, it's deeply hated by the police and a frequent source of incriminatory evidence against the wearer. Since "you got nothing to hide", as the old saying goes, why not bodycam yourself and offer the authorities a great source of evidence they can use against yourself?

I think that’s right, it’s a double edged sword. You would have to ask if you’re more likely to be wrongly accused or to be caught doing something wrong by your own recordings.

This guy has been recording himself publicly since 2002 after ending up on a no fly list. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasan_M._Elahi

I think that’s taking it too far and would rather encrypt than publish it publicly, but doing it publicly does strengthen the alibi

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Interesting work, glad to see I am not the only crazy one left in the life logging scene after all these years. Have been lifelogging since 2004-ish, and built a few custom bits of software and hardware to support it. I don't record 24x7 anymore, but I used to. Now my recordings are limited mostly to my office environment, and when I am out and about using a Sensecam-like device with custom firmware. When in my offic…

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Since everyone is interested in the hardware: https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256803349510543.html https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256803085687061.html the particular choice was for the battery and the other for the size, both are generic and come with the same software and bios, several vendors, if I could buy something better I would look for one that can have a lavalier microphone

Super cool project! How do you carry the microphones on your person? The big one looks like it wouldn’t clip to a shirt very easily. Does it pick up your voice from your pocket?

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Honest question,how does this make the lives of humans better?

Well, for example. Lets say that I have a goal BMI I want to maintain If I reach for the Oreos, I can choose to have a flag set with a heuritic I created myself that will tell me: "Having 5 oreos means you need to reduce other calorie intake by n calories to maintain your BMI" That data can also be aggregated to give me my macro/micros for everything I've eaten etc... without me having to log it like I do now Think a…

I'd just get really annoyed at that AI

...being annoyed increases stress, which increases appetite

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

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Interesting work, glad to see I am not the only crazy one left in the life logging scene after all these years. Have been lifelogging since 2004-ish, and built a few custom bits of software and hardware to support it. I don't record 24x7 anymore, but I used to. Now my recordings are limited mostly to my office environment, and when I am out and about using a Sensecam-like device with custom firmware. When in my offic…

Do you mind sharing your experience, why you started, what you want to get out of this etc? I'm interested to read your experience.

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I've been experimenting with this recently as well, but with an app on my apple watch. Looking for a method/model to split different speakers into different tracks to only look at audio from myself and certain people.

Ahh I’m working on exact same project. I applied to YC with the idea and was told that “nobody wants this” during the interview. There’s a ton of problems in the space around privacy and UX. But I’m incredibly excited about projects in this space because in modern society we’re basically surrounded by a million unhealthy things designed to tempt us. Logging forces you to “stay honest”. I’ve been shocked already by ho…

My original inspiration is to better understand how I talk to others and study my own behavior
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