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Re: AI Guesses Your Accent

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Post by MichaelZuo »

tharkun__ wrote: post #152
mavhc wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or teach people not to trust that you said something just because something sounds like you. Use actual authentication instead of implied. Same for photos, videos

This is perfect for CEO scams in most American companies. Many (large and small) American companies (and other nationalities as well, sure) a top down management approach is the norm. I.e. "CEO" (or "your manager" / "person in power") says something and you jump and do it without asking any questions because you fear you'll be fired otherwise (or have other repercussions). In such an environment, imagine the CEO / pe…

Isn’t it desirable to weed out organizations with such fragile procedures…?

It’s like how those ransomware thieves incentivize all the critical computer systems in the world to remain air gapped, which seems like an overall net positive.

Re: AI Guesses Your Accent

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Post by areoform »

The AI couldn't guess my accent correctly which is OK as it's fairly non-standard. However, the onboarding flow needs work. I feel like it took too long to ask too little and it made the wrong assumptions.

The app also crashed towards the end.

   NotFoundError: Failed to execute 'removeChild' on 'Node': The node to be removed is not a child of this node.
    at https://start.boldvoice.com/build/_shared/chunk-NFFSPFRU.js:1:627
    at Ti (https://start.boldvoice.com/build/_shared/chunk-WREYPQ4L.js:8:22278)
    at _t (https://start.boldvoice.com/build/_shared/chunk-WREYPQ4L.js:8:23972)
    at Xn (https://start.boldvoice.com/build/_shared/chunk-WREYPQ4L.js:8:41320)
    at Bf (https://start.boldvoice.com/build/_shared/chunk-WREYPQ4L.js:8:40880)
    at hn (https://start.boldvoice.com/build/_shared/chunk-WREYPQ4L.js:8:39936)
    at Qo (https://start.boldvoice.com/build/_shared/chunk-WREYPQ4L.js:8:36620)
    at pn (https://start.boldvoice.com/build/_shared/chunk-WREYPQ4L.js:6:3250)
    at Bf (https://start.boldvoice.com/build/_shared/chunk-WREYPQ4L.js:8:40935)
    at hn (https://start.boldvoice.com/build/_shared/chunk-WREYPQ4L.js:8:39936)
re:assumptions I realize my experience is outside the norm. But there are "native" english speakers in most countries on Earth. Immigrants and expatriates are an example of one such community.

The app assumes that there's only one kind of "native" speaker i.e. Americans, British folks and Australians. That's not the case. Over 80 countries have native english speakers. Many of them have accents that are outside the American and British norm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_territor...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-speaking_world

Re: AI Guesses Your Accent

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Post by msoad »

bossyTeacher wrote: post #165
jampa wrote: post #30

I knew my accent was strong, but I didn't expect to get 100% Portuguese, which is strange since Portuguese from Portugal sounds more like Eastern Europe, and Portuguese Brazil is more like Spanish. Maybe it considers both accents to be Portuguese? A fun fact: When using Whisper by OpenAI, there seems to be a ~1% chance that all my text, which was spoken entirely in English, is automatically transcribed and translated…

> Portuguese from Portugal sounds more like Eastern Europe, and Portuguese Brazil is more like Spanish. Surely you mean the opposite? Portugal is literally next to Spain and both languages have coexisted since they were both born following Rome's fall. Both Galician and Portugal's Portugese are likely similar to each other and closer to Spanish than Brazil's Portuguese

No. I literally thought people in Portugal are speaking Russian at first!

Re: AI Guesses Your Accent

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Post by cperciva »

insane_dreamer wrote: post #62
belval wrote: post #2

It's fun but as I tested it I realized how this is pretty much the modern equivalent of a Facebook quiz that asks you the name of your first pet, first car and mother's maiden name. If they recorded any of that they likely have enough to clone my voice somewhat faithfully. Congratulations on labelling my French Canadian accent as French though, I'll have to work on my pronounciation more to fool the AI.

French Canadian and France French accents are very different, so if the AI couldn't tell the difference, that doesn't speak well for it

Indeed. I learned Quebecois in school and when I started speaking it in Paris I got confused looks and "... do you speak English?"

Re: AI Guesses Your Accent

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Post by tharkun__ »

MichaelZuo wrote: post #171
tharkun__ wrote: post #152

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is perfect for CEO scams in most American companies. Many (large and small) American companies (and other nationalities as well, sure) a top down management approach is the norm. I.e. "CEO" (or "your manager" / "person in power") says something and you jump and do it without asking any questions because you fear you'll be fired otherwise (or have other repercussions). In such an environment, imagine the CEO / pe…

Isn’t it desirable to weed out organizations with such fragile procedures…? It’s like how those ransomware thieves incentivize all the critical computer systems in the world to remain air gapped, which seems like an overall net positive.

Haha!

In a sense I agree with you. However, really great organizations have weak links. It only needs one unfortunately. I personally don't want to be out of job because of one weak link.

Sort of to your point, we do have training (which I find obnoxiously dumb, but many seem to find it great - I just let the video run in the background and answer the questions without actually watching a single second of it) around this sort of thing and we have phishing tests that are super easy to figure out (the email headers literally tell you it's a phishing test) but various people post on internal channels "Is this a scam? I'm not sure, please help!" and not all of them are non-technical people at all.

Above a certain size of company there just are gonna be some weak links in just the wrong place(s) randomly even with the best procedures unfortunately.

Re: AI Guesses Your Accent

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Post by dec0dedab0de »

I got English 57%, Spanish 23%, Hindi/Urdu 14%

I am from south jersey and close enough to philly to have a similar accent. I have been traveling and had people pinpoint where I was from multiple times.

Its making me wonder if my reading voice is more proper. Or possibly the thing just doesn’t work.

Re: AI Guesses Your Accent

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Post by gleenn »

gtirloni wrote: post #170
belval wrote: post #2

It's fun but as I tested it I realized how this is pretty much the modern equivalent of a Facebook quiz that asks you the name of your first pet, first car and mother's maiden name. If they recorded any of that they likely have enough to clone my voice somewhat faithfully. Congratulations on labelling my French Canadian accent as French though, I'll have to work on my pronounciation more to fool the AI.

How does this website know who you are?

Did you know that something like 80% of the websites you visit are tracked by a handful of companies which are all effectively sharing that with many thousands of ad and data broker companies which can easily narrow you down? It's not tinfoil hat land to knkw that nearly every site you visit has cross-site tracking.
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