is organized this site the fun will likely melt away after just one. lights with your voice turn off the lights digital assistants using voice command infiltrating our day to day lives but why always so keen them kernis is a fact and his birdland by start ups you all for has developed an open source platform that anyone can use to program voice apps which work on all devices. and. you know what i find fascinating about voice is how natural this type of interaction is. when she comes in but even a 3 year old child can ask for a specific song although we can't really help you on that we cannot seem to tell you know and then there's the older generation who never quite felt understood by technology to. all of

a sudden they see more free interacting with tech and this had never quite worked before this example shows just how much it's already possible the 2 people don't speak the same language but they can still communicate thanks to smart speech software which there was going to let about percent and there's a you know what i'm looking for a place to have lunch before going to the airport there's a great place around the corner you can take the train from there to the airport are you better not wait that delays be now what is the might it is that yes they light up let it go. but it's not as easy as the advertisement might have you believe i know this from my own family my father speaks german with an accent and the speech recognition technology of the remote control often struggles to understand his commands this has to do with who developed the algorithms and crucially with who didn't. pashto on yelling speech impediment dialect it's a different cultural backgrounds. there are many people who don't sound like the

average silicon valley coder develop a whole communicating and their authentic comprehension problems it's interesting because all tired eyes are also just from differences between genders holland us oft women are frequently understood less well than men for example much. these differences are largely due to the data used to train voice algorithms the typical software developer is a white man who speaks english. in the beginning developers use their own voices to train the voice assistance a circumstance which still has consequences to this day. no voice assistant whether produced by amazon or google apple i.b.m. or microsoft will understand every word but the error rates fall notable patterns a study by stanford university for example found a 35 percent error rate for african-americans as opposed to 19 percent for white americans even though english is the standard language for voice just a means many languages can't be used at all it's just 8 work across platforms for

amazon google and apple the google smartphone assistant was the most diverse it speaks 24 languages but generally the rule for all devices is minorities are not a certain time or to 8 minutes. if you lend i mean many countries all there's no speech software yes off because the demand just isn't worth investing and at the most an act on the human. so speech recognition systems don't work the same for everyone plus let's not forget that there are people with speech impediments and people who cannot speak or hear a german research project has developed the 1st tour that enables speech software to recognise heiling which research is also focusing on going beyond the strict sense of for its meanings after all it's not just what someone says but also how they say it that plays a big role in comprehension this is especially intriguing for companies as they hope to find out more about their customer's point that i'm in

a great time today i know. it takes only a few words to hear what kind of mood a person is and whether they're happy or angry. they say i program can filter out 6000 parameters from someone's voice including pitch and tambor. developers from the start of my dear and munich are hoping that their smart voice analysis will enable them to sneak a peek into people's hearts. the software has already been tested in call centers where to send you something coming calls to analyze the callers as well as the staff members in the press this useful assistance for control. of this consumer using the software i felt as if i were automatically looking at things from the outside modest when i was and i thought about the customer a lot more. happy customers are loyal customers and companies want to keep it that way but there are also critical voices in increasing creating voice space profiles is problematic when you detach lecture and digital ethics. his advice can reveal

a lot about my suit or my house phone bill was fixed those are very sensitive privacy to sensi and they should be of no concern to companies and at least not so long as i have not given my explicit consent to it. but that's what companies want to find out as much as possible about their customers from their voices since 2018 amazon has a patent on effort ties meant for people with illnesses or conditions in other words alexa is supposed to tell from a person's voice whether they're ill or even depressive and then recommend products accordingly but how is it that this technology can work to speak we need our entire body that longs the trachea and the larrys with its vocal cords in total more than 100 muscles a part of creating sound and several parts of the brain too and that's the reason why our voice can reveal important information about illnesses like parkinson's.

compared to a healthy person's voice of. god someone with parkinson's voice was so choppy. 7 7 7 young showed up as a computer scientist. working on detecting parkinson's disease and it's very early stage. no you can are concerned as a neurodegenerative disorders that which specifically attacks the motor functions on the left. or so it can be detected from very early on in the mind muscle fine with which we have here you generate sounds and voices and causes in the future it may also be possible to detect other conditions like autism depression or currently called 19 through voice analysis incredible what's become possible with artificial intelligence and digital voice analysis but it's worth bearing in mind that this technology also comes with wrists back in 2017 the canadian startup lie a bird caused a stir with manipulated voices of politicians like donald trump and barack obama i

am not a robot my generation is always different i'm not a robot my information is always different well that doesn't really sound bad real is that why a bird has since then been bought and now it's part of a software for transcribing and creating pod casts the integrated ai makes it possible to edit the voice recordings after you have finished recording like this for example i should probably get in shape this year i've changed this quickly i should probably watch t.w. ship this year that sounds pretty good already but it only works on line and so far only in english but the technology is developing rapidly take the example of this french company which is already working on manipulating voices in real time. french software company candy voice specialized in cloning voices. not to take me. home or love well part you'll do our technology can synthesize

a boys with just 80 words and then let that person's voice say whatever it wants to play. in order to demonstrate the way the software works the voice experts need samples i'm contact his football team achieve the expected results. 500 sentences contain all the typical sounds. german. defense to news clips and in the early afternoon hours in southeast china. an algorithm disassembles the recordings into small fragments the meaning of the words is completely irrelevant here what the program is after is the sound of the individual fragments so that it has numerous sound bites from both speakers. now the algorithm can start comparing the fragments thereby also comparing the tambour of both voices the more words are given to the algorithm the better it can train on its own. once training is complete this off why should be able to convert every 2nd spoken by the male voice into the female voice and vice versa. but how well does the software work

can voice is being manipulated live and i'm already on a 29 years old and i'm from germany i'm speaking in max's voice and it sounds very real. this conference english not i was pretty close to what i ordered or sounds like mckenna. and the other way around. i'm max but i'm speaking an area known as boyce right now and that's a pretty convincing. but also quite a weird feeling. pretty impressive but it doesn't sound good enough to really be able to deceive you scientists are working on using the human voice as a type of password the idea behind that is that register customers would be immediately recognized by their voice when they call. a growing number of companies including european banks want to replace identity verification for security questions fingerprints and pins with voice authentication. as

a palm health institute and dom's dot in southwest germany project ahead on q. is testing such a voice id system minded my voice is my password to. a company for instance a bank has his voice samples just as they would for a customer the company software created a biometric profile from his voice sample with more than 100 identifying characteristics such as pitch or rhythm. lynched and when logging in view of what use the program compares the voice speaking with the stored profile if they match the customer's granted access. but what if somebody uses a digitally manipulated voice. key larry bird or similar programs have not yet reached a level of protection to be able to accurately recreate a local melody and all the characteristics of a human being's voice. but not all experts are convinced voice verification systems

are safe. to air her and me i see voice is an interesting addition it's just it's not just concepts into right now i wouldn't use my voice for banking and so on and survive actually in the studio and i just know the technology is only just getting started on the home. so at their wrist. well doubts but despite these the tech giants the voice command and analysis as the next major intersection between humans and machines and the technology has already made it into our homes researchers expect that before long our whole apartment or house will be equipped with microphones and speakers so that smart speakers might even become redundant i have to say that i have some concerns about this to mean my apartment is generally a really private place and i don't want to feel like someone or something is listening to me when i'm at home but what do you think about this what do you use voice commands for let us know on you tube or facebook and see you soon.

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