I installed @homeassistant with #VoicePreview over the weekend, using the Home Assistant Green.
It uses Whisper's base model under the hood, and I've got an Australian accent. My PhD research showed Whisper performs reasonably well on Australian accents, but I set up an automation for "start a writing session for {minutes} minutes".
And apparently I'm starting a _rotting_ session.
#ASR #ASRfail #HomeAssistant
ARM ASR Upscaling Technology Now Available; Unreal Engine And Unity Plugins Planned #accuracysuperresolution #arm #asr #gaming #mobile #software
https://www.lowyat.net/2025/346194/arm-asr-unreal-engine-unity-plugins/
Arm unleashes ASR upscaling to boost mobile gaming performance https://www.developer-tech.com/news/arm-asr-upscaling-boost-mobile-gaming-performance/ #arm #developers #coding #gamedev #programming #asr #mobile #gaming #tech #news #technology
Whisper & Pyannote: The Ultimate Combo for Speech Transcription! 
Combining Whisper (ASR) and Pyannote (diarization) enables accurate and speaker-segmented transcriptions, even locally. 
Applications: meetings, podcasts, sentiment analysis, subtitles...
Read the article: https://scalastic.io/whisper-pyannote-ultimate-speech-transcription/
Have you tried these tools? Share your thoughts! 
Whisper & Pyannote : la combinaison ultime pour la transcription vocale !
Associer Whisper (ASR) et Pyannote (diarisation) permet d’obtenir des transcriptions précises et segmentées par interlocuteur, même en local.
Applications : réunions, podcasts, analyse des sentiments, sous-titres...
Découvrez l’article : https://scalastic.io/whisper-pyannote-ultimate-speech-transcription/
Avez-vous testé ces outils ? Partagez votre avis !
If people are asking 'are RPG blogs dead?' then the hour has come again - gather the blogs for the r/osr blogroll!
https://www.reddit.com/r/osr/comments/1ip673o/osr_blogroll_14th_february_2025_postretirement/
Kies een genocidevrije #zorgverzekeraar!
Nederlandse zorgverzekeraars investeren fors in bedrijven die bijdragen aan de illegale Israëlische nederzettingeneconomie.
Jouw maandelijkse zorgpremie mag geen mensenrechtenschendingen financieren.
Stap nu over naar een ethischere verzekeraar en dien een klacht in. Laat jouw stem horen tegen deze onrechtvaardigheid!
Zeg nee tegen de volgende bedrijven:
#Achmea en haar dochterbedrijven:
– #ZilverenKruis
– #FBTO
– #CentraalBeheer
– #Interpolis
– #Eurocross
– #InShared
– De Christelijke Zorgverzekeraar
– De Friesland Zorgverzekeraar
#Aegon en #ASR
– Zij zijn recentelijk samengegaan en opereren nu in Nederland onder de naam ASR.
Waarom:
- Aegon en ASR investeren samen meer dan 1 miljard USD in bedrijven die bijdragen aan de Israëlische nederzettingeneconomie, waarmee de illegale bezetting wordt ondersteund.
- Achmea investeert 178 miljoen USD in bedrijven die hieraan verbonden zijn.
- Aegon 998,7 miljoen euro belegt in 10 wapenbedrijven die wapens leveren aan repressieve regimes.
- Achmea 79,5 miljoen euro investeert in 2 van deze bedrijven.
- Aegon investeert ook in wapenbedrijven die rechtstreeks wapens leveren aan #Israël.
️ Bronnen:
- Artsen voor Gaza: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/artsen-voor-gaza_maak-vandaag-het-verschil-kies-een-genocidevrije-activity-7271616636376256512-MWpa
- Stop Funding Genocide: https://stopfundinggenocide.nl/zorgverzekering
Nun c'è problema
Daje #Roma!
(Abbiamo perso, ma si è vista una squadra. Poi solito palo e solito arbitro)
Spero di sbagliarmi, ma non credo i #Friedkin siano tanto folli da mettere #Mancini sulla panchina della #Roma.
Aldilà del suo passato laziale, l'ultimo club che ha allenato è stato nel 2018. Poi Italia e Arabia Saudita con i risultati che sappiamo.
Credo che il nome di Mancini sia fatto circolare dai soliti giornalisti italiani...
Non credo che il nuovo allenatore sia fra i nomi che girano.
Spero/credo #Allegri.
Juric a rischio: Mancini in pole, già avviati i contatti. In arrivo anche due dirigenti, ipotesi Carnevali come AD
Lo dico subito... #Mancini non lo voglio. Ex giocatore ed allenatore di quell'altra squadra.
Rivoglio #DDR (o riportate #Mou).
#DeRossi #Daniele #Roma #ASR #ASRoma
PS #Allegri unica alternativa accettabile
Dov'è Lina?
Where is Lina?
Like many other technologists, I gave my time and expertise for free to #StackOverflow because the content was licensed CC-BY-SA - meaning that it was a public good. It brought me joy to help people figure out why their #ASR code wasn't working, or assist with a #CUDA bug.
Now that a deal has been struck with #OpenAI to scrape all the questions and answers in Stack Overflow, to train #GenerativeAI models, like #LLMs, without attribution to authors (as required under the CC-BY-SA license under which Stack Overflow content is licensed), to be sold back to us (the SA clause requires derivative works to be shared under the same license), I have issued a Data Deletion request to Stack Overflow to disassociate my username from my Stack Overflow username, and am closing my account, just like I did with Reddit, Inc.
https://policies.stackoverflow.co/data-request/
The data I helped create is going to be bundled in an #LLM and sold back to me.
In a single move, Stack Overflow has alienated its community - which is also its main source of competitive advantage, in exchange for token lucre.
Stack Exchange, Stack Overflow's former instantiation, used to fulfill a psychological contract - help others out when you can, for the expectation that others may in turn assist you in the future. Now it's not an exchange, it's #enshittification.
Programmers now join artists and copywriters, whose works have been snaffled up to create #GenAI solutions.
The silver lining I see is that once OpenAI creates LLMs that generate code - like Microsoft has done with Copilot on GitHub - where will they go to get help with the bugs that the generative AI models introduce, particularly, given the recent GitClear report, of the "downward pressure on code quality" caused by these tools?
While this is just one more example of #enshittification, it's also a salient lesson for #DevRel folks - if your community is your source of advantage, don't upset them.
Two new ASR rules just released in preview
Block rebooting machine in Safe ModeBlock use of copied or impersonated system tools
The latter is especially interesting...
This week we will try out this tool for #AncientStateReconstruction #ASR of #protein sequences, that is based on folding stability and structural features.
Glad to find someone who takes proteins structure into account for an evolutionary approach. It's surprisingly rare to find.
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/2041-210x.13341
"Se siamo contenti perché abbiamo giocato una partita buona ma abbiamo perso significa che la direzione è le mediocrità."
#DanieleDeRossi
