jessica powell

Sonic splitter @AudioshakeAi. Xoogler. Author of The Big Disruption. Fiction in @nytimes @VICE @WIRED. Mostly noise, some signal.

[jessica powell @themoko]

Today we're releasing @AudioShakeAI Multi-Speaker 2.0: one recording of several people talking goes in, a clean labeled track per person comes out — including the moments they talk over each other.

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@RicardoBlanco @posthog where are my children? are they still in the house? what's retention looking like? have they activated? is anyone churning to the neighbor's house?

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if it were legal to have two husbands i would marry @posthog

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@matt_slotnick This is the only correct answer, so you are safe

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You're on the Titanic with an 808 and a 909. There's one life jacket left. Who do you save?

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@pammilpr Came out of retirement for thirty seconds

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Media: Those Techcrunch-style, we'll-publish-anything-days are over. If companies want PR they need to have real stories

Also Media:

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@philipwalford this is cheating...but accepted. you and your LinnDrum survive

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@LaurenGoode don't you have an expose on meta's cafeteria offerings to write?

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@PatrickFIanagan I had already done it fwiw :)

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@texjer They probably have you read a sample script first to make it "custom," which should help WER a lot. "Traditional" ASR can do that too--for example, it's a way you can build a model to work with someone who has a speech impediment

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This is cool! But also, I have questions for the brain people:

1) Does speaking aloud help us think? I feel like I don't know what I'm saying half the time till I'm hearing myself say it

2) Loss of feedback? Tied to the above, I feel like hearing myself say something aloud helps me refine it, and recognize when something doesn't sound right (writing is an even better version of this)

3) You lose emotional cues (but longer term, you could get that from other facial expressions, at least from ppl with expressive faces)

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[jessica powell @themoko]

@texjer ok overachiever! all i did tonight was watch netflix :)

side note---UX aside, WER =19%!?!

on the upside, i guess it wouldn't break in the same ways normal ASR does (eg a room with crowd noise).

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@SLazarusM31 What are some examples of edge cases?

Unrelated/related to disibility tech: I've really liked some of the work that's been done with small, on-device models that allow people with atypical or impaired speech to be able to have a custom ASR. Bonus: totally private!

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@chudson @getskydive do they fight with each other too? 😁

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@dflieb I've seen whisper tech like @tomasmas doing with Aumental / Vox, so no question in my mind that something around open space -->transcription will be a real thing!

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@lilyjclifford you are a brain, or a brain-adjacent---thoughts?

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@sarah_cone wash your hair at night!!!!

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@jamesjyu They must also be using ai to review the submission...?

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@RamaswmySridhar in this world of chaos, it's good to see you're still doing HIIT year after year