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.
Is it illegal to record it, or is it simply inadmissible in court?
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
#332Excellent idea. You can later search through your logs in the future for reference. As it's all in text. Prior solutions posted on the net, had this take photo / record audio 24/7 features, but then those were stuck there. What next? What would anyone do with these data? But this Hi Jarvis styled recording of text on the go is a very useful feature. Another step ahead.
I think the "total recall" search can be a killer feature
Re: I record myself on audio 24x7 and use an AI to process the information
#333Well done! Got a similar PoC that uses Tasker to record sound on my phone, Whisper to convert it to text, and neatly organizes everything into Obsidian.md. The continuous recording kills the battery life on my phone so it's only usable if you don't mind going around with a powerbank. Would be great if a manufacturer would put in a separate low-energy chip with a good ADC. P.S. "Active functions" with custom home auto…
you should write about it!
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#334Re: I record myself on audio 24x7 and use an AI to process the information
#335Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Sounds like a nightmare!
Re: I record myself on audio 24x7 and use an AI to process the information
#336This is a cool project. One of my pet ideas that I haven't done is to build a home assistant where all data is stored and processed by a home "server". The biggest benefit I see is that it could truly be omnipresent. There in the background, answering questions, jumping into your conversations without prompt. And it's much less creepy if all that data isn't going to someone else's computer. Also piping in and process…
It does not sound like a realistic capacity plan. The reason this works in the cloud is the inference can be run in parallel on a huge amount of hardware for a short time. To run those kind of models on your rinkydink computer would take forever.
Re: I record myself on audio 24x7 and use an AI to process the information
#337This 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…
a managed record of our own activities can be extremely valuable
I've thought of this as a hardware product: A device that records your own voice and non vocal sounds, but which does not record the words of others. (That, plus maybe location and a video stream, provided one is in a location without "a reasonable expectation of privacy.")
Perhaps it doesn't even have to be hardware at this point! Maybe this could be installed as an app on an older smartphone?
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#338MORE INFO ON THE DEVICES: https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256803349510543.html https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256803085687061.html both recorders are using the same generic bios, you have a .txt file called FACTORY.TXT, by changing the values of the file you configure the device, this is the content of the file. --------------- TYP:1 (0:WAV 1:MP3) VOR:0 (0:voice-activated off 1-7:voice-activated sensitivity,higher m…
Thanks for the post! I find that other voice assistants (eg. Siri) are not particularly able to detect the activation command when there's any background sound (like music with lyrics). How does your system perform against this?
I understand that you're doing batch processing asynchronously and so any immediate task isn't affected; but it's arguably even more of a problem where you record a task, put it out of your mind, but then the AI fails to detect the command because it got confused by the background?
[EDIT] I see you've sort of responded to this already at this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33612155
Re: I record myself on audio 24x7 and use an AI to process the information
#339This is a cool project. One of my pet ideas that I haven't done is to build a home assistant where all data is stored and processed by a home "server". The biggest benefit I see is that it could truly be omnipresent. There in the background, answering questions, jumping into your conversations without prompt. And it's much less creepy if all that data isn't going to someone else's computer. Also piping in and process…
It does not sound like a realistic capacity plan. The reason this works in the cloud is the inference can be run in parallel on a huge amount of hardware for a short time. To run those kind of models on your rinkydink computer would take forever.
Respectfully, I don't think that's true. "The Cloud" is just computers in a warehouse somewhere
$5/month's worth of "cloud" is going to work out to be less actual raw CPU resources than a low end raspberry pi running full time in-house
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#340Earlier quoted context omitted.
You should do some self reflection on why you felt the need to make a comment just to make yourself look smart.
> why you felt the need to make a comment just to make yourself look smart. I hardly think it made me look smart. It's borderline trivial. The parent comment was insanely reductive in the stadnard HN style. I was hoping to help reduce the appearance of future such comments. Sibling comments indicate that it had no positive effect. Such is life.
> It's borderline trivial.
> I was hoping to help reduce the appearance of future such comments.
> Sibling comments indicate that it had no positive effect.
I'm really not trying to attack you here but this honestly reads like a high-school kid trying to make themselves sound smart by emulating spock from star trek.