Re:New study: The advertising industry is systematically bre...
by mattmanser on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @01:33PM
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Do you know how expensive (and shit) voice-to-text is? Go check out AWS Transcribe prices. Try it out too, see how much nonsense it will spew out.
It's funny as I've literally just done a project on this to automatically classify phone calls. In reality voice recognition is only good at set phrases, most of Google Assistant and Alexa is smoke and mirrors.
It wouldn't even be able to recognise "wine tasting in Woodenville", let alone for it to be economically viable to process every voice like sound in a taxi and make money off adverts.
It's just the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon, not Uber recording you.
Re:New study: The advertising industry is systematically bre...
by esoterica on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @04:13PM
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Did it occur to you that maybe the driver brought up Woodenville because he got the same email before the ride?
Re:New study: The advertising industry is systematically bre...
by baddox on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @07:51PM
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I've never heard of Woodenville, but I'd be willing to bet that it's a popular place to go wine-tasting, and that would explain both your conversation and the email advertisement. The exact timing could of course be a coincidence, and not one that seems at all unlikely.
I found a forum for Uber drivers where someone asked, “Why does the driver app ask to access the microphone?”