Google’s new voice recorder app transcribes in Real-Time, even when offline

Re:Google’s new voice recorder app transcribes in Real-Time,... by the_duke on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @06:18PM (#21264567)

An interesting angle to this: if your phone is powerful enough to transcribe audio in real time without any external processing, and considering how cheap it is to transfer and store text, how long before autocratic countries start persisting everything you say ?

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Re:Google’s new voice recorder app transcribes in Real-Time,... by dzhiurgis on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @09:53PM (#21266275)

Before or how long time ago, every countries do that?

I wish mere mortals could have access to this. Having an easily searchable logs of what was said on calls would solve trillions in contract and court disputes. Many people already use this with third party apps, especially on Android.

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Re:Google’s new voice recorder app transcribes in Real-Time,... by pacala on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @06:45PM (#21264834)

Persisting is benign. Actively processing, less so. Imagine stack-ranking party alignment sentiment, based on everything the subjects ever said.

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Re:Google’s new voice recorder app transcribes in Real-Time,... by the_duke on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @07:42PM (#21265366)

The processing part was implied.

My point was just: with audio, you might want to think about really recording, storing and processing everything. But if a phone can do high quality transcriptions and just send them off to government data centers, it becomes sort of a no brainer.

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