It’s happening because people allow it to happen. I recently unsubbed from a channel because they were beginning to use community posts to promote sponsors. Like a giant fucking post with complete BS like “I always wanted to do X video and now thanks to RAID SHADOW LEGENDS include huge pic it is now reality. Thank you RAID SHADOW LEGENDS and with code BullshitPromoFromYT you get 10% off the newest hat or whatever shit they sell in that game”. Some people complained and asked the creator not to do this, but they were quickly flooded by the hordes of “they have to make money somehow”-drones. Despicable.
Could have been a part of the incidence investigation to rule out that the crash was caused by the wake turbulence of the fighter jets going supersonic.
There are languages that are considered isolates, meaning they are spoken and written languages that share no connection to any other known language. Basque is an example for that, spoken in the Northern parts of Spain, but does not share any similarities to Spanish, Portuguese, English or French. Common theory is that it just developed in that region and was not influenced by outside factors at all which is linguistically weird since trading with other regions was common. There are also no known languages that descended from Basque, thus it’s not a proto-language either.
“Hippopotamus” is another one. It derives from the Greek words hippos (horse) and potamos (river) and this concept of river horse is present in many different languages:
German: Flusspferd (lit. river horse)
Dutch: Rivierpaard (lit. river horse)
Finnish: Virtahepo (lit. stream horse)
Danish: Flodhest (lit. flood horse)
Chinese: 河马 (lit. river horse)
Arabic: فرس النهر (lit. river horse)
French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese use variations of hippopotamus.
I’m German, born and raised, but in Saarland. One time when visiting a friend in Berlin, I was at a bar and got a compliment on how good my German is even tho I’m obviously a foreigner.
I live 30km from the French border, I had 10 years worth of French classes at school. I always hated it, but I did an extra-curriculum to acquire a diploma because a classmate and friend of mine didn’t want to do it alone. My French is in a weird spot: I cannot form a proper sentence, but I understand listening exercises and written text well. I recently started to go through some French lessons on Duolingo and I’m already struggling with the sentences it expects me to form in unit 8…
I know a guy who wanted to volunteer to go to Iraq and, after assessment, the army said no. He was working as a paper pusher and was apparently so bad at his job that they didn’t even want him as cannon fodder.
Black should exchange rooks after Re1 because you simplify the game while having a winning position. Every piece exchange generally favors the player that’s ahead.
After the exchange Black can play h6 to force 2 of white’s pawns onto the H file where they are no threat whatsoever because there is no way for white to guard the queening square, so black can simply plant their king there and indefinitely hold against 2 pawns while their rook bullies the bishop and the king.
Nobody would give two shits if that was the problem. The problem is that their behavior endangers the safety of others and the integrity of society.
I don’t just mean people who cannot be vaccinated. Without vaccines, lockdowns like the ones during the covid pandemic would be in effect pretty much all the time. We have functioning vaccines against diseases that are much worse than covid. We got lucky in 2020.
There is a lot to unpack in your post and this will be very long, sorry about that:
First off, what you are requesting is called “Automated Speech Recognition” or ASR in short and the fundamental idea behind it to receive a speech signal and convert it into a workable format. Usually this workable format means text or prompted tasks. Whether this is AI or not depends largely on how broad you define AI. I wouldn’t classify it as AI as, in its core, it’s just statistical analysis. But AI can help fixing errors, more on that later.
ASR works on a Hidden Markov Model (HMM), a statistical model that is only dependent on the state attained in a previous event, so it’s recognizing previously observed patterns. These patterns are taught to the model by a training process.
The generalized process works like this:
cut the audio signal into small frames and analyze them according to a set of features like tonality, voicedness, formants. This process is called feature extraction. Create data vectors that contain information about the features of the raw signal.
load these features into a decoder. The decoder is an acoustic model that looks up the phonems it recognized through the features in a dictionary and computes the most likely word in its dictionary. These results are retained and sequences of words are compared to the decoders language model. What it recognizes and how well it recognizes signals is based on its own dictionary and the language model used afterwards.
Language models are essentially just presets that dictate what is accepted as a valid signal input. For an activation phrase, this would be a very simple grammar-based model that recognizes only the exact predefined token for the activation and rejects everything else. For general use, you can write a more adaptive grammar, or many different grammars at the same time, but you will still run into cases where the model rejects an input because it cannot find a grammar that matches the signal. This is called out-of-grammar (OOG) speech.
To reduce OOG errors, you can train a statistical language model (SLM) which is basically just a huge library of natural language data so it doesn’t rely on fixed grammars. An large language model (LLM) is like a very advanced SLM with a ridiculous amount of training data and trained, contextual connections between subjects. It’s called large because it requires an insane amount of data to function on even a very basic level. You can easily mix grammar-based and SLM approaches, so that you only need to use the SLM when an input is not recognized.
Source: Writing programs that recognize speech inputs and do tasks based upon them, like what your doctor probably has, was my last job until I quit. Whether we used a grammar-based approach or an SLM approach was entirely up to the specific use case. Purely grammar-based is more privacy-friendly because the computational work required is easily managed by most smartphones or other small portable devices and can easily be done offline. SLM solutions were generally not portable to handheld devices without relying on a cloud service doing the recognition (or at least not if you wanted an acceptable speed of input processing).
tl;dr If you want just plain text-to-speech where the program just writes down what it thinks you said and does not do any error correction, then you can do that offline (the language model my workplace used was from Dragon). If you want your assistant to “understand” what you were trying to say, you will require AI of some form and they are not very privacy-friendly.
I plugged into ethernet (as wifi w/captive portal does not work for me). I think clearnet worked but I have no interest in that. Egress Tor traffic was blocked and so was VPN. I’m not interested in editing all my scripts and configs to use clearnet, so the library’s internet is useless to me (unless I bother to try a tor...
The UDHR is not a treaty, so it does not create any direct legal bindings. The article you quote may have been excluded, overwritten or rephrased in your jurisdiction.
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In Australia, a Cessna light aircraft's engine failed, but the pilot managed to steer it away from residential buildings. (streamable.com)
That Blue MAGA outreach... (lemmy.world)
Horrible voter outreach.
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Autism rule (midwest.social)
the people I know don’t listen and often hear the opposite of what I say. That’s why I have to repeat myself a lot.
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Okay this is getting a bit real now Duo, thanks 💔 (startrek.website)
Which is which? (sh.itjust.works)
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This is from the chess master app. That’s the solution of the puzzle (to win)....
Science denialism fantasies. (mander.xyz)
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The gargoyle statues / lion statues that flank the entrance to upscale mansions/churches etc, what's the word for those?
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Help me understand Voice Recognition tech
Help me understand Voice Recognition tech...
Has ethernet become illegitimate? A librarian flipped out after spotting me using ethernet
I plugged into ethernet (as wifi w/captive portal does not work for me). I think clearnet worked but I have no interest in that. Egress Tor traffic was blocked and so was VPN. I’m not interested in editing all my scripts and configs to use clearnet, so the library’s internet is useless to me (unless I bother to try a tor...