Accents in Latent Spaces: How AI Hears Accent Strength in English

Re:Accents in Latent Spaces: How AI Hears Accent Strength in... by fxtentacle on Tuesday May 06, 2025 @11:24AM (#43906192)

What a great AI use-case! At first, I felt excited ...

But then I read their privacy policy. They want permission to save all of my audio interactions for all eternity. It's so sad that I will never try out their (admittedly super cool) AI tech.

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Re:Accents in Latent Spaces: How AI Hears Accent Strength in... by anadalakra on Tuesday May 06, 2025 @11:27AM (#43906232)

You can reach out and request your data to be deleted at any time.

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Re:Accents in Latent Spaces: How AI Hears Accent Strength in... by fxtentacle on Tuesday May 06, 2025 @12:07PM (#43906725)

"if you wish to opt out of future collection of voice samples, you may do so by disabling voice-related features in the BoldVoice app. Please note that this may limit the functionality of certain services."

Yeah, I can opt out. By not using any voice-related feature in their voice training app.

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Re:Accents in Latent Spaces: How AI Hears Accent Strength in... by anadalakra on Tuesday May 06, 2025 @12:16PM (#43906823)

If you're still actively using the app, the voice will be retained and processed so that you can receive instant feedback, and also so that you receive additional personalized practice items and video lessons based on your speech needs. If you don't want the samples saved "in perpetuity", you can request them to be deleted once you decide that you're done with the application. Hope this helps!

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Re:Accents in Latent Spaces: How AI Hears Accent Strength in... by 3abiton on Tuesday May 06, 2025 @09:55PM (#43911509)

I wonder if voice will be treated like facial data in terms of privacy. At least the EU has strong provisions against PII.

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