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Unless it wasn’t destroyed, in which case it might be interring with an investigation, which is probably also illegal in France.

Specifically? At a high level the answer must be “no user input to the part of the system that does the verification.”

The market is two-sided

Idk but it’s not lack of training data.

I’m in this space and no it isn’t.

There’s tons of human-created data the AI companies aren’t using yet.

If a treaty could be found that was violated, the Alien Tort Statute would allow it.

I just wrapped up a project where I had to do a bunch of work with audio, which I’ve never done before, and I wouldn’t say 100X but I did at night over a handful of weeks what would’ve taken me months to teach myself and some of it I probably never would have figured out. Like I could prototype on an easy library and go “rewrite it with librosa instead” or “nah I don’t really like this let’s just do such and such with ffmpeg that would work and probably be faster, right?” or “find a way to do this funky thing with torchaudio and a bunch of file I/O in memory” and then be like “how much money would I save on GCP egress if I did such and such?” It’s not always right on the first try but omg does it save a shitload of time and energy.

Sure, you're just going to try lots of things and see what works best, but it's confusing to be comparing things at such different levels of abstraction where a lot of the time you don't even know what you're comparing and it's impossible to do apples-to-apples even on your own test data. If your need is "speaker identification", you're going to end up comparing commercial black boxes like Speechmatics (probably custom) vs commercial translucent boxes like Gladia (some custom blend of whisper + pyannote + etc) vs [asr_api]/[some_specific_sepformer_model]. Like, I can observe that products I know to be built on top of whisper don't seem to handle overlapping speaker diarization that well, but I don't actually have any way of knowing if that's got anything to do with whisper.

Apparently not. See my reply to satvikpendem.

Apparently not. See https://github.com/lifeiteng/OmniSenseVoice/blob/main/src/om.... See also FunASR running SenseVoice but using Kaldi for speaker identification https://github.com/modelscope/FunASR/blob/cd684580991661b9a0...

I'll check it out.

FWIW, in terms of benchmarking, I'm more interested in benchmarks against Gladia, Deepgram, Pyannote, and Speechmatics than whatever is built into the hyperscaler platforms. But I end up doing my own anyway so whatevs.

Also, you guys need any training data? I have >10K hrs of conversational iso-audio :)

I’ve been building a production app on top of ASR and find the range of models kind of bewildering compared to LLMs and video. The commercial offerings seem to be custom or built on top of Whisper or maybe nvidia canary/parakeet and then you have stuff like speechbrain that seems to run on top of lots of different open models for different tasks. Sometimes it’s genuinely hard to tell what’s a foundation model and what isn’t.

Separately, I wonder if this is the model Speechmatics uses.

I feel like it’s not that bad to interact with if you do it regularly, but if I go a while without using it I forget how to do everything. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to admin an instance.

Klimt is obviously most famous for his paintings incorporating gold but when I saw a huge collection of his work in Vienna I was absolutely blown away by some of his pastels. They are superlative, better than Degas IMO.

You obviously haven't ridden the bus in SF Chinatown.

Give them to Found Footage Fest or Everything is Terrible!

https://www.foundfootagefest.com/

https://www.youtube.com/@FoundFootageFest

https://www.youtube.com/@EVERYTHINGISTERRIBLE

See Cal Civ Code 1021.5. Idk if it would be available in this context but maybe there’s an angle.

In CA I wonder if a PAGA claim could be viable.

Are we not supposed to talk about suicide or something? I’ve tried to commit suicide before and I don’t recommend doing it but I feel just fine talking about it.

The Frankish were famously good sword smiths. Even the Vikings preferred Frankish swords to their own.

Dealing with raccoons is a challenge. I learned from reading CA and SF ordinances that it’s illegal to trap and relocate or injure nuisance animals but apparently it’s totally fine to trap and swiftly kill them. In case you’re wondering, I have not trapped, injured, or killed any raccoons.

The individual meso cases? Lol no. At least some of the defendants nearly always settle but they’re not remotely slam dunks for the plaintiffs if they make it to trial.

Meso class actions went away a long time ago. These days they’re all individual suits, and on rare occasions, MDLs.

Lxml frees the GIL internally and iirc the motivation was something like concurrent reads of different portions of large documents.

Except this is totally a thing at nonprofits. If it isn’t happening to her, it’s because her board members know better.

I just went through this last week and the trick was getting my finance director to tell HR that she approved the higher amount I wanted to offer. HR will play games with your budget until you take the excuse away.

c is them trying to get you to buy YT premium

IDK about the stock but I’ve interviewed there and their cash comp is legit FU money. Am I misunderstanding you?

IDK if this is verifiably true but it strikes me as plausible and well-reasoned.