I've always considered myself a low-to-mid quality speaker. Like many people, I just naturally learned to talk, forming patterns and habits that have hardened over the years. My limited vocabulary is my most obvious weakness. I rarely expand the words and phrases in my verbal repertoire. But I also am surprisingly poor at enunciating certain words. And I won't even go into my constant use of "umm" filler words...
A few months ago, I started to experiment with a tool that takes a dictionary word as part of a Stable Diffusion text prompt and then outputs a picture. The objective is to speak about the generated picture using the dictionary word. The speech is recorded and then can be judged on various dimensions (tone/words/style/etc). Currently, the tool defaults to peer-to-peer anonymous judging, but there is also a private mode where all the audio stays local to the device.
Agree. But there are cases where perhaps you are just taking out or doing drive thru - and see a line to order and would just like to somehow get in quickly.
Wow. I wish Mr. Pincus all the best and hope he can pull off a Steve Jobs - esque "job" and revive a company from the clutches of death.
It is quite possible that he can try to do something really innovative and pivot to a complete new direction. He certainly has the funds to do something big, given he was an early investor in facebook.
i think the major issue is going to be power. the battery requirements for processing a small-scale holodeck will be huge. making something portable that lasts for a sufficient time is going to require an energy breakthrough
The conceptual analogy here is an admin who gets an automated alert when there’s a problem with a server. Except the “server” is a monitored person and the “admin” is a pseudo peer-to-peer network of friends.
A few months ago, I started to experiment with a tool that takes a dictionary word as part of a Stable Diffusion text prompt and then outputs a picture. The objective is to speak about the generated picture using the dictionary word. The speech is recorded and then can be judged on various dimensions (tone/words/style/etc). Currently, the tool defaults to peer-to-peer anonymous judging, but there is also a private mode where all the audio stays local to the device.