An Eavesdropping Lamp That Livetweets Private Conversations

Re:An Eavesdropping Lamp That Livetweets Private Conversations by aw3c2 on Wednesday April 23, 2014 @10:03AM (#7633985)

Those tweets feel completely made up to me.

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Re:An Eavesdropping Lamp That Livetweets Private Conversations by tommo123 on Wednesday April 23, 2014 @10:11AM (#7634031)

At the very least they've definitely been run through a middle-man at some point. So what they've done is put a microphone in a library, grabbed whatever audio is on it, voice recognition'd it and then cleaned it up, and uploaded it to Twitter. And hidden it inside a lamp. shrug

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Re:An Eavesdropping Lamp That Livetweets Private Conversations by crazypyro on Wednesday April 23, 2014 @11:26AM (#7634553)

They are not even using software for voice recognition. Instead, they are paying people pennies an hour to do it on Mturk.

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Re:An Eavesdropping Lamp That Livetweets Private Conversations by aw3c2 on Wednesday April 23, 2014 @10:18AM (#7634081)

Yeah. I love the idea/concept though.

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Re:An Eavesdropping Lamp That Livetweets Private Conversations by sehugg on Wednesday April 23, 2014 @10:31AM (#7634147)

They're using Mechanical Turk to transcribe the audio.

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