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Re:Company Brags About Using Smart Device Microphone Audio t... by jruohonen on Saturday December 16, 2023 @12:52AM (#38662067)
Old news:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37910663

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Re:Company Brags About Using Smart Device Microphone Audio t... by throwaway318 on Saturday December 16, 2023 @01:22AM (#38662182)
Relevant news. A different company, MindSift.

Important themes. That someone has won a Nobel Prize is old news also, as others have.

But different ends of 'noble pursuits'.

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Re:Company Brags About Using Smart Device Microphone Audio t... by jruohonen on Saturday December 16, 2023 @04:00AM (#38662858)
> But different ends of 'noble pursuits'.

Indeed. I wonder how much hardware is required to run a speech-to-text ML model locally, and then proceed with whatever NLP you wish?

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