Notices by halcy​:icosahedron: (halcy@icosahedron.website), page 21

@Doggo ah yes, unfortunately, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMS2VnDveP8

(this is slowly getting better, and so is speech recognition for Languages Other Than English, but US/GB English is still king wrt data amounts, far as I know)

@Doggo (sorry that most of this is vague - while close, it's not 100% my field and all the big companies are very hush hush about how their systems _actually_ work)

@Doggo notice that a certain distance from the microphone works or doesn't work very well, that might not just be your imagination.

For the Far Future, you could try to contribute recordings to https://voice.mozilla.org/en - that's not going to help you immediately, but if people or companies start using mozillas database as part of training their systems, your voice would be in there - and a system having seen your voice specifically is, of course, ideal

@Doggo type of abstraction of how you speak is passed into the recognition system as an additional input so that the system can work well for different kinds of voices)

same goes for specific words - though you CAN teach siri how to pronounce them, that's likely mostly for output

generally, since it's a machine learning system, what you want is for your voice to be as close to what the system was trained with, which is why using a microphone might not actually be helpful, but if you

@Doggo one thing that you can do (if you haven't already) is to turn on and train (or turn of and then back on) the "hey siri" feature. I'm not 100% on if apple uses the voice print from that to improve their general speech recognizers performance, but that's a thing that they could do (and they probably do it).

Beyond that, it's probably very hard. The in the cloud nature of how siri / g voice / alexa work makes adaptation to specific users hard (usually what is done instead is that a

https://soundcloud.com/echosoftmusic/gravitar god I love this song a lot

@er1n GL!

LB god I remember this

@Zeether tbh you should in your best innocent tone ask them just that

"uh I'm sorry uhhh weren't you the, you know, the diaper people?"

dancing to trance music is motion plur

@vfrmedia @tom nope, we use 0 here. Also the proper national emergency numbers are 110 (cops) and 112 (fire/medical), though 911 is generally aliased to 112

@vfrmedia @tom yeah, 9111 goes to the internal Leitstelle. We mostly call them when somebody accidentally trips the burglar alarm

@tom real feueralarm hours smash that mf 1 button if u up

@tom just imagine me trying to stammer my way through what I want to explain here (process a and process b both have a copy of the synth module so that modules add_data function has to shovel data to a new process c) and you have the full experience

me trying to explain multiprocessing pitfalls to students:

that's just not what a Strong Mandate For A Hard Brexit looks like, and assuming that there is one when there is not is half the reason for this mess

honestly the thing that weirds me out the most is the idea that a lot of people seem to propagate that brexit is somehow "the will of british voters" which like

1) 52% is a "there is majority support, I guess" number, certainly not a "will of the people" number

2) even if you take _just_ voters, as opposed to everybody living in GB, the actual number is 38% for, 34% against, 28% "eh, whatever".

a german newspaper: "after the referendum in summer 2016, there were fears that other countries might take brexit as an example, but now, the britains serve as a cautionary tale"

that's it, innit