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'However, privacy experts are worried. Evan Greer of digital rights organisation Fight for the Future said: "People tend to think of Amazon as an online seller company, but really Amazon is a surveillance company."
Greer added: "Amazon wants to have its hands everywhere, and acquiring a company that's essentially built on mapping the inside of people's homes seems like a natural extension of the surveillance reach that Amazon already has."'
www.dailystar.co.uk
‘Earlier this summer, at the re:MARS conference—an Amazon-hosted event focusing on machine learning, automation, robotics, and space—Rohit Prasad, head scientist and vice president of Alexa A.I., aimed to wow the audience with a paranormal parlor trick: speaking with the dead.’
‘Neural systems are capable of learning not just pronunciation but also patterns of rhythm, stress, and intonation that linguists call “prosody.” And they can pick up new speaking styles, or switch speaker “identities,” with relative ease.’
‘As the big tech companies continue to invest in text to speech, one thing is certain: It will be harder and harder to tell if the voice you’re hearing is made by a human, or by a human-made algorithm.’
www.fastcompany.com
Greer added: "Amazon wants to have its hands everywhere, and acquiring a company that's essentially built on mapping the inside of people's homes seems like a natural extension of the surveillance reach that Amazon already has."'
Amazon drones could see straight into millions of homes after buying 'iRobot'
Amazon is buying out iRobot, the company that makes Roomba, for billions of pounds - it will not only give them robot vacuum cleaners but a huge amount of data on the interior of users' homes
‘Earlier this summer, at the re:MARS conference—an Amazon-hosted event focusing on machine learning, automation, robotics, and space—Rohit Prasad, head scientist and vice president of Alexa A.I., aimed to wow the audience with a paranormal parlor trick: speaking with the dead.’
‘Neural systems are capable of learning not just pronunciation but also patterns of rhythm, stress, and intonation that linguists call “prosody.” And they can pick up new speaking styles, or switch speaker “identities,” with relative ease.’
‘As the big tech companies continue to invest in text to speech, one thing is certain: It will be harder and harder to tell if the voice you’re hearing is made by a human, or by a human-made algorithm.’
Why Amazon’s ‘dead grandma’ Alexa is just the beginning for voice cloning
The evolution of text to speech technology is bringing us closer to convincingly human-sounding voices.
www.fastcompany.com
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