in what we think are troublemakers people dressed in black and with hoodies actually on their head and they were attacking or what it looked like. they were attacking the police forces and the police have been responding to them. but there were also thousands of thousands of thousands and thousands of peaceful demonstrators here in paris and tens of thousands in other cities across the country from all sorts of backgrounds have been talking to teachers, to students, to musicians and also to journalists who turned up to defend what they think is the freedom of the press. one journalist told me that she was actually afraid to show up at this demonstration. she's been demonstrating all her life since, since she was little. but with this new law that could come into force. she now no longer feel safe, and she said that she would only stay at the beginning of the demonstration and then leave and go home because she feared to get caught up in the violence and that, you know, without being able to feel more in the future that would be more of

a threat to her in the future, at least are at least you mentioned this long, it would limit the distribution of footage of police officers. that was the reason why this demonstration was called. why are people so angry about it? well, this law actually says, as you say that you know, you are no longer, you might no longer be allowed to broadcast images. if these images could harm police officers now in the law, in the new version, it says with the intention to harm police officers. that's a very vague expression, very vague term, and many people here fear that that could back actually be interpreted in many ways . and then the police or a judge could say, even if you're not saying it, you're trying to harm police officers. so many people here feel that that would be the 1st step to ban broadcasting of images of the police. and they are saying, given that all that violence that we've been seeing by the police to other people,

you know, like this, this week we actually saw a video of a music music producer who was beaten up by several police before being arrested. and people are saying, filming such scenes is the only protection we have, and the government now wants to take away that truck protections. and so they feel it's very important to take to the streets and demonstrate against that. now listen to what extent though, is this protest, in fact, part of a bigger movement, a bigger protest against him and against his government. we did see a number of yellow vests demonstrators taking part of them. you also mention a wide variety of people. where does this fit in into the bigger picture of frustration in france? well, many people here are feeling that the government that i'm on my car is moving further to the right. there are a few other laws on the table that will be good will go through parliament in the,

in the near future. especially one actually on separatism on a, you know, the values of the republic and it's, as it's called now that supposed to crack down on, on islam isn't. and many people feel that he's doing a lot to strengthen security to strengthen the powers of the police. but not enough to protect against discrimination against racism. and they fear that that might actually be a tipping point. and the government might give so much so many powers to police that in the future if there were a far right of, you know, an extremist government in place that government might be able to use these laws and these rules against the population. so they feel that it's really important to stand up now and prevent this from happening. is lisa lewis reporting from paris. thank you so much. iran's leaders are blaming israel for the killing of the country's chief nuclear scientist and valen revenge

moxon factories a day that was suspected of being the mastermind of a secret nuclear weapons program. and israeli cabinet minister has said he's quote, no clue who was behind the killing. meanwhile, germany has called on all sides to show restraint and avoid escalating tensions that could derail talks with iran on nuclear issues. a group of hardliners in tehran venting their anger at the assassination of the country's top nuclear scientist mohsin factories a day. they hold the u.s. and israel responsible for the killing and a calling for iran's retaliation to be swift and heart. president has some new warning, was also quick to blame israel and said tehran will avenge the death, but only when it sees fit. he told a meeting of the governments that as he puts it, all the enemies of islamic iran know that the iranian nation and officials are too

brave and zealous to ignore this criminal act. the relevant authorities respond to this crime in a timely and appropriate manner. for terror around the loss of factories a day is a blow. he was said to be the architect of the country's nuclear energy program. western security agencies believe that from 1900 to 2003, his research was focused on the development of an atomic bomb. iran has always denied such allegations, but israel claimed as recently as 2018 that he was leading a project to build a nuclear weapon. no one has admitted to carrying out the attack. but observers say bears the hallmarks of a targeted assassination. with multiple gunmen opened fire cheese vehicle and also reports of explosions. the defense minister offered condolences to his widow. she echoed the words of the country's leaders saying his work must continue, and iran would never back down. let's get

a quick check now of some of the other stories making the news this hour. thousands of protesters marched in warsaw and other polar cities on saturday. in the latest demonstration against court ordered abortion restrictions, the march was held on the 102nd anniversary of women gaining voting rights in poland. protesters also voiced their anger about police violence at earlier pro-choice rallies. more than 500 delegates from the far right alternative for germany party have attended their convention in person despite a surge in coronavirus cases. e.f.t. has been an outspoken critic of the government's pandemic measures saying they endanger livelihoods and fundamental freedoms. most other political parties in germany have held of their events on line to ethiopia. now, where the leader of tikrit region forces says government troops have begun an offensive to capture the regional capital mckayla. this comes

a day after ethiopia's prime minister warned he would soon launch a quote, final phase of military operations. 3 weeks of fighting between the government and regional forces have had a devastating impact on civilians. tens of thousands of people have been forced from their homes, many of them fleeing to sudan, where they end up in camps that lack even the most basic facilities. on friday, the united nations said that the 1st of 4 humanitarian airlift for refugees had landed in the sudanese capital khartoum. earlier we spoke to journalist sam, well into touch you in addis ababa and asked him about the impact that this conflict will likely have on the broader region. you know, there are those that disagree with me, but i've been saying from day one, what if you're hopeless in ethiopia? you know, it's a huge country with more than 110000000 people, what they regard as if you will likely effect they were in countries. it's operating neighboring countries. i sort of know the people that are in sudan,

$43.00, a estimated by that you have. these are under estimated because there are many people that haven't been accounted thousands of people. so that's the sudar singh. when you move to the south sudan, it's a country that has known conflict from day one since he's been, it depends in 2011 as well, lately, a fake that so soon when this is done, you know, when you have this many refugees, you don't expect them to see in the sudan, they're coming to europe there's, there's going to be a migration coming to europe, and that the european leaders. that's why they need to take it seriously. since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, belgium has been among the nations hardest hit, worldwide. scrambling to contain the virus that introduced new restrictions of the beginning of this month and ordered bars, restaurants, and nonessential shops to shut down. well now belgium is trying to balance the need

to contain the virus with allowing christmas and new year's celebrations. keeping patients alive from dusk till dawn. more foreigners. you're now. so let's see hand out work throughout the 1st and 2nd wave of the coronavirus pandemic in this unit. where you used to being confronted with people who were at the end of their life were in a critical condition, but not at this rate. it's true that it's training. there are certain rooms where you open the door and you don't know what to expect. the corona virus has killed more than $16000.00. people in belgium, among around the country has the highest per capita death rate in europe. survivors are grateful for the care they received. if i didn't have him here, i could have died already up on it or walked on and would as the number of

new infections drops, the country is easing its lockdown restrictions soon. shops like these will be allowed to welcome customers. again, we're going to do the course of us, your d.c., the federal only national government decided to reopen shops on december 1st, under one condition. it must be done in a responsible and safe manner. so in the coming weeks we won't be able to go window shopping. shopping will have to be done quickly and shopping that it ought not be law. the usual christmas frenzy is not going to return to the streets on christmas eve and christmas day. private gatherings for those living alone will be limited to just 3 people. bars and restaurants will stay closed until at least january for doctors treating patients suffering. the most severe effects of covered 19, this is just too much too fast. so vote death associate it if you will. it is going

to be catastrophic for the lock down. obviously not respect distance rules during a celebration at the end of the year. and will clearly face a 3rd wave go over home plan for us in 2000 by the music it goes on. teams are on their knees, completely exhausted. but i think it will be the final blow where we health workers are hoping they won't have to deal with another spike in infections come january. all right, some german soccer now and they're going to sleep as early as saturday. games are done and dusted. so why don't we just take a look at all the results so far by her new nick were too much force to cart a poor result for a host dortmund against cologne. live sick beat beat, a fed when yawn and frankfurt finished all square oxburgh and freiburg also ended in a draw back on friday was for beat. they had a brain and an 8 goal thriller and kicking off soon for us to mention the and on

sunday had several in travel to play live or couldn't, and minds will battle it out with hoffenheim. that's the latest on d.w. news. this hour up next shift living in the digital age. and i will be back in about 3 quarters of an hour with another news update for you. i'm sorry to have a student from me and the entire team. thanks for watching us. it is harm's way to bring you more conservation to play. how do we reach cities, greener? how can we protect our tenants? we can make a difference. the ideas, the series of imploded from folsom to bondi,, w. and all mine once

the secret of this classic hit, this is the sound or the story behind the music was a hit before the british. because beethoven's 9th symphony for the world starts to simmer down on g.w. the good well speech be the new intersection between humans and technology. even twitter is setting its hopes on audio messaging. now, even twitter setting its hopes on audio messaging. now, how well does morse recognition work, and what else does our voice reveal about us? voice, command and voice analysis. our topic today on shit. asking

the fridge for recipes, talking to your g.p.s. or turning off the lights with your voice. turn off the lights, digital assistance using voice command, infiltrating our day to day lives. but why always so keen on them could. this is a fact. and his berlin by start ups you or has developed an open source platform that anyone can use to program voice apps which work on all devices. and that's 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 i can't read it all to, i'm not going outside to tell her, you know, it's real. and then there's the older generation who never quite felt understood by technology. you 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. mr. was going to vote for such an important 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 when you get out, wait that delay speed. now with this though, 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 and yelling speech impediment dialects, different cultural backgrounds. there are many people who don't sound like the average silicon valley coder and develop a whole community. and there are often comprehension problems. it's all tires are

also just from differences between genders. soft women are frequently understood less well than men. for example, 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 voices times. many languages can't be used at all. just 8 work across platforms for amazon, google and apple. the google smartphone assistant is the most diverse. it speaks 24

languages. but generally the rule for all devices is minorities are not a certain time or take minutes. if you land and in many countries, all there's no speech software us off because the demand just isn't worth investing in at the moment 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 language. research is also focusing on going beyond the strict sense of where 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 a spell intriguing for companies, as they hope to find out more about their customers. i'm in a great time today. i know it takes only a few words to hear what kind of mood a person is or 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, one, able to sneak a peek into people's hearts. the software has already been tested in call centers, where there's been use something coming calls to analyze the callers as well as the staff members of this new school system for control using the software. and i felt as if i were automatically looking at things from the outside, a modest one i was and i thought about the customer a lot more happy customers are loyal customers and companies want to keep them that way. but they're also critical voices in increasing creating voice space profiles is problematic when you get to 10, lecture and digital efforts. and of course can reveal a lot about my mood or my house phone, called those are very sensitive private status. and when they should be,

i know i'm surrounded companies and at least not so long as i have not given my explicit consent. 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 $100.00 muscles, a part of creating sound and several parts of the brain too. and that the reason why our voice can reveal important information about illnesses like parkinson's compared to a healthy person's voice is someone with parkinson's voice with some choppy.

7 7 7 your own show life is a computer scientist just team are working on detecting parkinson's disease and it's very early stages. you know, if you can, parkinson's is a neurodegenerative disorders at which specifically attacks the motor functions on the left or something can be detected some very early on in the mind. muscle pain with which we have here, you generate sounds and voices in concert in the future. it may also be possible to detect other conditions like autism, depression, or currently called that night table for 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 engine nation 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 little time. french software company can be forced to specialized in cloning voices. home or love will pop your door. technology can synthesize a boys with just 80 words of work and then let that be voice, say whatever it wants to play. in order to demonstrate the way the software works, the voice experts need samples, i'm going cottons football team achieve the expected results. 500 sentences contain

all the typical sounds of german defense to news clips and in the early afternoon hours in southeast china. an algorithm disassembles, the recordings of the small fragments of 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 bytes for 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, the software should be able to convert every sentence spoken by the male voice into the female voice and vice versa. but how well does the software work? can voices be manipulated? live and out the i'm gonna, i'm 29 years old and i'm from germany. i'm speaking in max's voice and it sounds very real, this conference mish not,

i was pretty close to what i recorded voice sounds like mckenna and the other way around. i'm max, but i'm speaking an area known as voice right now. that's 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 pawn of the foot institute, and dobbs dot in southwest germany project head on is testing such a voice id system. mind you, 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 via a voice, 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 the night a bird or similar programs have not yet reached a level of protection to be able to accurately recreate the hokum melody and all the characteristics of a human being's voice. but not all experts are convinced voice verification systems are safe to air. currently i see voice is an interesting addition. it's just, it's not just concepts, it's internet. now i wouldn't use my voice for banking and so on and survive. i'm pretty active. i need to just email the technology is only just getting started on

the home so at their rest, well, doubts that despite these the tech giants, he 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 command for? let us know on you tube or facebook. i buy and see you soon.

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