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"Amazon s'attelle à la conception d'écouteurs sans fil équipés d'Alexa"

"Apple semble vouloir augmenter la vitesse à laquelle Siri est implémentée dans des produits tiers. Du moins, c'est ce qu'il semblerait, étant donné son acquisition de la société Pullstring. Ce dernier participe à la création et à la conception d'applications vocales pour les produits physiques. "

podcast CES France Info sur les assistants vocaux français Linto, Vivoka et Snips questions sur la conception... pour des assistants vocaux "gafam free" Linto & Snips btb pour l'instant Vivoka : btbtc (hôtels)

> décryptage de l'appel d'offre de l'Education Nationale, concernant la conception, la création et la fourniture d'un assistant vocal pour enseigner l'anglais aux élèves du primaire.

"You can train Alexa to recognize you by creating a voice profile. After you set up your profile, Alexa can call you by your name and deliver personalized results based on your voice. Further, Alexa can distinguish your voice from those of other people in the house. Anyone over the age of 13 can create a voice profile."

page 15 "[...], we are also seeing personal assistants, like Alexa and Siri, seeking to pick up on the emotional undertones of human speech, with companies even going so far as to patent methods of marketing based on detecting emotions, as well as mental and physical health. The AI-enabled emotion measurement company Affectiva now promises it can promote safer driving by monitoring "driver and occupant emotions, cognitive states, and reactions to the driving experience...from face and voice." Yet there is little evidence that any of these systems actually work across different individuals, contexts, and cultures, or have any safeguards put in place to mitigate concerns about privacy, bias, or discrimination in their operation. Furthermore, as we have seen in the large literature on bias and fairness, classifications of this nature not only have direct impacts on human lives, but also serve as data to train and influence other AI systems. This raises the stakes for any use of affect recognition, further emphasizing why it should be critically examined and its use severely restricted."

podcast radio articles complémentaires : https://siecledigital.fr/2018/11/21/alexa-voix-presentateur/ https://developer.amazon.com/fr/blogs/alexa/post/7ab9665a-0536-4be2-aaad-18281ec59af8/varying-speaking-styles-with-neural-text-to-speech

Le projet Common Voice est une initiative de Mozilla pour aider à apprendre aux machines à parler comme tout un chacun.

nouvelle bulle de filtre ?

"Some companies are already working to develop more individualized software. Voiceitt, a startup, is currently beta-testing a speech-recognition app that translates nonstandard speech to standard speech in real time using a closed dictionary. "

source : https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/18/technology/artificial-intelligence-language.html Nouvelle technologie de Google (Bert) qui permet à une IA de répondre aussi bien qu'un humain à des questions de compréhension fondées sur test de type QCM (=>https://arxiv.org/pdf/1808.05326.pdf) "Alors que nous répondons correctement à 88 % des questions, les bonnes réponses des systèmes d'IA oscillent plutôt aux alentours de 60 %. Mais depuis Google a dévoilé une nouvelle technologie (.pdf), appelée Bert (publiée en open source), qui répond aussi bien que les humains, sans que ce système ait été conçu pour passer le test." => piste d'amélioration des échanges / conversations avec un assistant vocal

"The goal is to create a personality but not to trick the user into thinking they are talking to a human being. For example, Amazon's Alexa never refers to itself as a human but rather as digital entity. The overall goal is to leverage the communication system that users learned first and know best: conversation."

"Stéphane Richard : Notre enceinte connectée pourra répondre aussi bien au mot-clé "Djingo" qu'au déclencheur "Alexa". Cependant, les fonctions seront distinctes et il n'y aura aucun partage de données entre les deux services. Aujourd'hui, seuls les assistants d'Amazon et de Google sont capables d'effectuer des requêtes sur le Web à la voix. Notre partenariat avec Alexa relève du "donnant-donnant" car, en échange, les enceintes d'Amazon vont également intégrer l'assistant Djingo en France et en Allemagne."

"At January's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, a boost to the artificial intelligence (AI) that allows smart speakers like the Echo, Google Home, and Apple Homepod to reliably recognize everyday sounds-and to act on them-is set to lend the devices powerful new capabilities, including the ability to recognize your favorite brands from the noises they make." "Are such activities an invasion of your "soundspace"? Schaub thinks so. He predicts, "People will find the detection of what kind of soft drink they are having, based on the sound of opening the can or bottle, very creepy." "That people are unaware their smart speakers could record activity after the device's wake word is uttered is no surprise to Schaub and his fellow researchers. Their survey of smart speaker users showed that consumer rationalizations for installing smart speakers showed "an incomplete understanding of privacy risks" and that they had a misplaced "trust relationship" with the smart speaker companies. Most users, the researchers said, seemed resigned to losing their privacy and accepted it as a cost of using the technology." "Still, voice assistant makers should harbor no illusions that audio data is any less worthy of protection than other forms of data, says a spokesman for the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) in London, which drew up of many of the measures in the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which companies the world over now have to comply with if they want to sell into Britain or Europe."

"In 2019, we'll demand the right to know whether we're speaking to a human or a robot, says Matt Stokes."