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Cécile Christodoulou

Amazon Workers Are Listening to What You Tell Alexa - 1 views

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    "Amazon.com Inc. employs thousands of people around the world to help improve the Alexa digital assistant powering its line of Echo speakers. The team listens to voice recordings captured in Echo owners' homes and offices. The recordings are transcribed, annotated and then fed back into the software as part of an effort to eliminate gaps in Alexa's understanding of human speech and help it better respond to commands. " "In marketing materials Amazon says Alexa "lives in the cloud and is always getting smarter." But like many software tools built to learn from experience, humans are doing some of the teaching." "In Alexa's privacy settings, the company gives users the option of disabling the use of their voice recordings for the development of new features. A screenshot reviewed by Bloomberg shows that the recordings sent to the Alexa auditors don't provide a user's full name and address but are associated with an account number, as well as the user's first name and the device's serial number." "Apple's Siri also has human helpers, who work to gauge whether the digital assistant's interpretation of requests lines up with what the person said. The recordings they review lack personally identifiable information and are stored for six months tied to a random identifier, according to an Apple security white paper. After that, the data is stripped of its random identification information but may be stored for longer periods to improve Siri's voice recognition. At Google, some reviewers can access some audio snippets from its Assistant to help train and improve the product, but it's not associated with any personally identifiable information and the audio is distorted, the company says. "
Cécile Christodoulou

US Smart Speaker Adoption Trends with Jeff McMahon, Jason Fields and Ava Mutchler - Voi... - 0 views

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    "This episode is all about U.S. smart speaker adoption data and trends and what it tells us about the future of voice assistant use worldwide. Jeff McMahon (CEO Voicify), Jason Fields (Chief Strategy Officer Voicify), and Ava Mutchler (Voicebot) join host Bret Kinsella discussing data from the recent 2019 U.S. Smart Speaker Consumer Adoption Report. Topics include the smart speaker rate of adoption, killer app use cases, device market share, changes from 2018, and voice app discovery challenges and solutions. "
Cécile Christodoulou

Google Assistant has been recording my voice since 2014, here's how I deleted everythin... - 0 views

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    Here's how to delete your voice history from Google
Cécile Christodoulou

Women Reclaiming AI workshop - 0 views

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    "Women Reclaiming AI (WRAI) is an expanding activist artwork, presented as a feminist AI voice assistant, programmed through participatory workshops by a growing community of self-identifying women. Through creating a platform for collective writing and editing, the project co-creates an AI that challenges prescribed gender roles. It is a response to the pervasive depiction of AI voice assistants gendered as women, subordinate and serving. Designed by development teams which lack diversity, these systems are embedded with unrepresentative world views and stereotype in ways that reinforce traditional gender roles. WRAI aims to reclaim female voices in the development of future AI systems by empowering self-identifying women to harness conversational AI as a medium for protest. This project is created by artists-technologists Coral Manton and Birgitte Aga in collaboration with an ever evolving community of self-identifying women."
Cécile Christodoulou

amazon alexa: Amazon Alexa builds a massive developer ecosystem in India, Technology Ne... - 0 views

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    "Amazon's popular voice assistant Alexa ended 2018 with 40,000 developers in India and 20,000-plus skills as the US retail giant raced to capture the smart speaker market in the country." ""We want Alexa to be everywhere. We want anybody, through a voice command, to do any task. Alexa's engineering team builds alarms and shopping lists, but a lot of customer experiences can be built by developers. We don't want to restrict Alexa skills building to only Amazon," said Dilip RS, country manager for Alexa skills, Amazon India."
Cécile Christodoulou

Why Alexa usually won't respond when someone says 'Alexa' on TV | VentureBeat - 0 views

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    "In a blog post this morning, Amazon details acoustic fingerprinting, a technique Alexa AI research scientists at the Seattle company use to "teach" Alexa what individual instances of its name sound like, so that the assistant can ignore them. The work is applied on the fly to detect when multiple Alexa-enabled devices around the globe hear the same command at roughly the same time - which Mike Rodehorst, machine learning scientist at Amazon's Alexa Speech division, says is needed to prevent Alexa from responding to pranks, references to people named Alexa, and other TV mentions Amazon isn't made aware of in advance."
Cécile Christodoulou

Neuroscientists Have Converted Brain Waves Into Verbal Speech - 1 views

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    "[...] neuroscientists from Columbia University recently made a major advancement toward this futuristic goal, successfully translating brain waves into intelligible speech for the first time." "Rather than directly tracking thoughts to produce speech, the researchers recorded neurological patterns generated by test subjects listening to others speak. These brain waves were fed into a vocoder-an artificial intelligence algorithm that synthesizes speech-and then converted into comprehensible, albeit robotic-sounding, speech mirroring the phrases heard by participants." article scientifique : https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-37359-z
Aurialie Jublin

[Accessibilité] Make tech accessibility better already - CNET - 0 views

  • "It's a crime that the most versatile device on the planet, the computer, has not adapted well to people who need help, who need assistive technology," he said in an interview last month. "It's almost criminal that programmers have not had their feet held to the fire to build interfaces that are accommodating for people with vision problems or hearing problems or motor problems."
  • He's not alone in needing an assist from technology. About 360 million people worldwide have a hearing disability, roughly 5 percent of all the people on Earth, according to the World Health Organization. Then factor in those with vision, motor or other impairments. In the US alone, more than one in three households has a member who identifies as having a disability, according to panel research by Nielsen last year.
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    "Vint Cerf says "it's almost criminal" that programmers aren't held accountable to design with disabilities in mind."
Cécile Christodoulou

Amazon Alexa voice assistant could soon make 999 calls   - 0 views

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    "Scotland Yard is developing new technology that would allow victims of crime to use voice-activated personal assistants, such as Amazon's Alexa and Google Assistant, to contact the police. Under plans being drawn up by Britain's largest force, people would simply have to shout for help - and any compatible in-range technology would notify the police. "
Cécile Christodoulou

Feminist Alexa - Project Report.pdf - Google Drive - 3 views

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    8 feminist personal intelligent assistant prototypes Designing a Feminist Alexa Seminar UAL Creative Computing Institute and Feminist Internet > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQyKdC37M20&t=876s
Cécile Christodoulou

Mental Models for Intelligent Assistants - 0 views

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    "Users of Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant conceptualize them in one of 3 ways: an interface, a personal assistant, or a brain. Frequent users are less likely to push the interaction limits of these AI systems than new users."
Cécile Christodoulou

The rise of Alexa creates a dilemma for your open plan office | WIRED UK - 0 views

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    "But as we move into a world where everyone will be talking to Google, Siri or Alexa, we will have to rethink what the office is for. Do we want it to be a place of real human-to-human interaction, or will it become something of a call centre, in which everyone is whispering to their voice assistant through Madonna-style mics? "
Cécile Christodoulou

S'incarner dans un autre corps - Libération - 0 views

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    "Il est désormais (presque) possible de s'incarner de manière réaliste dans un corps virtuel. Etat des lieux des possibilités et des risques avec les auteurs d'un ouvrage récent sur la réalité virtuelle et la réalité augmentée." Réalité virtuelle et réalité augmentée. Mythes et réalités, sous la direction de Bruno Arnaldi, Pascal Guitton et Guillaume Moreau, éditions Iste (2018). https://iste-editions.fr/products/realite-virtuelle-et-realite-augmentee
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