> author = {Beat Gfeller and ... A case of nominative determinism? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism
Wow that explains the many meteorologists in my area with names like Rains
Continuous low-power music recognition
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#12Will they use this tech for non-music purposes? Such as for enhancing google ads or for sending keywords to the NSA?
Automatically identifying whether you're at an illegal public performance and sending lawyers your way to extract the songs from your ears.
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Beat is a _very_ common name in Switzerland. I know about 10, none of them work in music :)
Is it pronounced bay-at?
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_(name):
> pronounced "BEH-awe-t"
Re: Continuous low-power music recognition
#14Is this why Shazam sold? Its basic functionality was going to be built into Andriod/Google Assistant?
I think it was inevitable that this feature would get built into phone OSes and at that point nobody would want a separate app.
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#16Great work, but super scary for me. The "service" of music recognition will probably be extended very quickly to a constantly running "environment recognition", just fingerprinting the audio around you, places, speakers etc..
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#17> Now Playing, has a daily battery usage of less than 1% on average, respects user privacy by running entirely on-device and can passively recognize a wide range of music.
Maybe I am missing something, but this seems to be much less respectful of my privacy than an app that only listens to the ambient sound around me when I explicitly give my consent (by opening/activating the app).
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#18These are one kind of HN posts that drive me up the wall. You say less power to get us to buy more? How about saving all that energy and using it for real world building.
To be fair, they say: > Since everything runs locally on the device without sending either audio or fingerprints to a server, the privacy of the user is respected and the whole system can run in airplane mode. This is far more respectful of user privacy than we usually see from Google. I, for one, am impressed.
What does this have to do with the comment you replied to?
Re: Continuous low-power music recognition
#19Will they use this tech for non-music purposes? Such as for enhancing google ads or for sending keywords to the NSA?
Automatically identifying whether you're at an illegal public performance and sending lawyers your way to extract the songs from your ears.
Well change the words "music" to "conversation" and song to "person" (or phrase), and things start to get pretty scary.
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#20> Now Playing, has a daily battery usage of less than 1% on average, respects user privacy by running entirely on-device and can passively recognize a wide range of music. Maybe I am missing something, but this seems to be much less respectful of my privacy than an app that only listens to the ambient sound around me when I explicitly give my consent (by opening/activating the app).
Of course their baseline for privacy is not "leaks as little user data as possible", but "does everything on the cloud". Hence it seems to respect user privacy from their point of view.
Not that they have a reasonable point of view, of course.