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Speech recognition is everywhere now, but with cloud-based systems like Alexa and Google Assistant, security and privacy concerns are increasingly top of mind — for consumers and businesses alike. These systems send and store your voice data on external servers, opening the door to things like data interception and unauthorized access​. Embedded voice recognition systems, also known as on-device voice…

A new age of voice assistants is emerging, allowing us to control and query products using natural language. The medical industry, one of the most stringently controlled markets, is where this type of hands-free interfacing can create the most value. Why Hands-Free Medical Voice Assistants? Patients confined to wheelchairs, beds, or immobilized in some way require a simple and intuitive…

LLMs & Small LLMs. Since the arrival of generative AI and Large Language Models the world has learned a whole new vocabulary. It’s impressive to me that “Large Language Models” and LLMs have moved into tech societies’ mainstream dialog and conversations. Language Models are nothing new. Since the early days of Hidden Markov Modeling, language models have been an important…

Originally Published in Sensory Perspectives on AI on Medium That’s easy…Just one. One that knows all the current knowledge of the internet, doesn’t hallucinate, knows everything about me, can carry out actions on my behalf, answers to my voice with my wakeword, and runs on device so there’s no risk in my private data leaking out. I think it’s kind…

Voice Assistants & Dependency…it’s Gonna get Bad I’m not particularly concerned about the dystopian futurist predictions of AI taking over the world and destroying humans, certainly not in the near term. But there are some very concerning things ranging from the spreading of bipartisanship (that we’ve seen from news and targeted social media) to the loss of privacy and private…