HyperVoix

"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. "

"En 2018, 29% des internautes interrogés dans cette enquête ont utilisé un assistant vocal intelligent sur ordinateur, smartphone ou enceinte connectée au cours des 12 derniers mois. Apparues récemment sur le marché, les enceintes connectées intelligentes sont utilisées par seulement 5% des internautes interrogés. Seuls 40 % des utilisateurs de ces dispositifs ont déjà paramétré leur assistant vocal au cours des 12 derniers mois, contre par exemple 69% des utilisateurs de smartphone qui ont réglé au moins un paramètre de confidentialité de leurs smartphones. Dans le détail, on constate que 23% ont vérifié les paramètres de confidentialité, 19% ont supprimé l'historique. Ils sont encore moins à avoir désactivé le micro (15%) ou à avoir débranché leur enceinte (6%) lorsque ceux-ci ne sont pas utilisés. La CNIL avait publié en décembre 2017 un petit guide sur les bonnes pratiques à adopter pour les possesseurs d'assistants vocaux et d'enceintes connectés. Ces chiffres, sur un marché encore balbutiant, tendent à démontrer que les premiers utilisateurs sont encore peu sensibles à la protection de leur intimité, ou n'ont pas encore pris conscience des risques posés par ces interfaces."

"The perfect environments for a voice assistant are settings where users want to perform a variety of tasks while keeping their attention on their surroundings, like augmented and virtual reality applications."

"Unless there is a strong enough economic argument, don't expect big companies to rush into producing Welsh, Gaelic or Cornish speech systems. Even tech giant Samsung hasn't yet managed to produce a UK-English speaking version of their Bixby assistant (international English speakers need to speak to it in fake American accents to get it to work). " "Research on brain-like learning algorithms may just hold the key here. This is technology that can continually learn during use, just like humans learn to speak a new language. It is unlike most current AI systems that are trained in the lab, before being let loose in the wild - apart from a few exceptions some, like Microsoft's Tay, notable for their spectacular failures. Future systems will be able to gradually acquire skills in a second language just by having users gradually introduce more and more of that language in their daily interactions. Rather than funding research into Welsh speech AI, the Welsh government may well do better by backing research into this new kind of adaptive learning technology."

Interview du cofondateur d'x-brain - Grégory Renard "Sa société, xBrain, a mis au point un système conversationnel à reconnaissance vocale capable de répondre aux appels des clients des banques ou des assurances." - interactions homme-machine - machine learning - revisiter la relation client 24h/24h - IA éthique : besoin de régulation

"Ce produit 100 % normand est certes en pourparlers avec de grosses firmes comme Carrefour et Leclerc, mais ambitionne « de travailler sur du très local : les Amap (agriculture de proximité), les circuits courts, le boucher du coin », détaille Jérôme Caudrelier (Casus Belli), en charge de l'expérimentation du projet. Mais la grande différence avec les mastodontes américains, c'est « l'aide au maintien à domicile en supplément des services d'aide traditionnels à domicile ». "

https://www.wired.com/story/the-genderless-digital-voice-the-world-needs-right-now/ "[...] a group of linguists, technologists, and sound designers-led by Copenhagen Pride and Vice's creative agency Virtue-are on a quest to change that with a new, genderless digital voice, made from real voices, called Q. Q isn't going to show up in your smartphone tomorrow, but the idea is to pressure the tech industry into acknowledging that gender isn't necessarily binary, a matter of man or woman, masculine or feminine." "[...] there's a sweet spot between 145 and 175 hertz, a range that research shows we perceive as more gender-neutral. Go higher and you'll perceive the voice as typically female; go lower and it becomes more masculine."

"Regarder Netflix, utiliser un assistant vocal… Derrière ces ges tes anodins se cachent d'énormes data centers et un réseau dont les calculs absorbent 8 % de l'électricité mondiale. Et ce n'est qu'un début. Car boos tés par le streaming, l'IA, la blockchain, leurs besoins pour raient dépasser notre production énergétique dès 2040 ! Une situation intenable, alertent des spécialistes."

"If voicebots provide value, then consumers will not hesitate to use them. [...] But convenience isn't one-sided. It has to be equally convenient for the business and for the consumer. And there are many underlying social, moral and legal implications to consider as this technology matures in support of that balance. How do you ensure a voicebot behaves ethically? How do you prevent inflection and sentiment analysis being deployed to manipulate people during a bot conversation? What do bots do with the information consumers provide? Will they remember credit card numbers? Where does information go? How is it stored? Who and what else can access it? There are severe privacy implications too. In Europe, for example, voicebots must comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (which came into force last year)." [...] "And businesses deploying voicebots also had better be prepared for the hefty weight of user expectation. As humans, we are biologically wired to recognize voices and instinctively recall what we can do with the associated persona. " [...] "Even though voicebots are soon going to be everywhere, we are not going to be comfortable talking to them all the time. They will have utility, and they will be more convenient for quick queries and simple tasks. But, being able to talk with a real person about messy human matters has value that a bot can never be trained to manage completely and infallibly. "

"Après les hôtels, Amazon élargit son offre B to B pour pousser l'adoption de ses enceintes connectées. Il s'agit cette fois-ci de la gestion des ressources humaines."

"-Smart speakers are not broadly useful-most users only use them for a few things-music, timers, alarms, and, in some cases, home automation scenarios. - Voice-only situations are limiting in cases where a visual or hybrid mode is required - media, entertainment, shopping, etc. - Engagement levels with third-party skills are very low (skills offer limited functionality and skills syntax is hard to remember). "I'm sorry, I don't know that" and other Alexa failures are no longer entertaining, but rather frustrating. Even Amazon acknowledges this [https://www.tomsguide.com/us/amazon-alexa-kills-skills,news-28072.html] - Smart speakers are NOT ubiquitous-the speaker on my kitchen counter is not in my car nor in my office!" "Apps - do we need to reinvent the wheel?" "Most people already have their banking, communications, social networking, navigation, travel and payment apps in their smartphones. They already know how to use them (simple). They already know which ones to use for what purpose-Slack for work, WhatsApp for friends, Messenger for family (user choice). They've already registered and set them up and they provide control over what information goes where-for instance, their portfolio may be in their banking app, their contacts are on the phone. They know which app sees what data (privacy). They also trust apps to protect them and their data. Imagine a voice assistant platform that just allows users to use the apps they already use-on-the-go - anytime, anywhere-with simple voice commands, without having to register these service relationships again, and without waiting for the developers to have to reinvent the wheel to plug into the platform. We must embrace mobile app actions as first-class citizens. We should be able to do things in our mobile apps with simple voice commands. We must provide user choice and personalize user experience without registration and without compromising privacy and trust."

Interview de Yann LeCun

"Que met-on en oeuvre comme technologies pour la reconnaissance faciale aujourd'hui ? Le visage deviendra-t-il une nouvelle empreinte digitale ? Quels sont les différents champs d'application pour les logiciels de reconnaissance faciale ? Faut-il voir la reconnaissance faciale d'un mauvais œil ?"