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SpinVox "Recognition" Is Often Expensive Human Transcription
An anonymous reader writes "SpinVox offers to convert voice messages to text using a system called D2 or 'the Brain.' According to BBC News, said 'Brain' is often of the old-fashioned kind: SpinVox is sending private voice messages to South Africa, the Philippines, and maybe Egypt to be typed by people in a call centre, despite being registered as keeping all private data inside Europe and claiming that the text is somehow anonymised. Insiders say they transcribed 'love messages, secret messages' and everything else from beginning to end, and the company is being bled dry by the cost: SpinVox has been locked out of one of their data centers over a payment dispute. SpinVox refuses to comment further on details — but according to their web page, they're 'enabling the Speech 3.0, Voice 3.0, and Business 3.0 markets,' whatever that means."
What?
No.
Their service says that they keep user supplied data in house. They do not.
Their service says that they use advanced technological means to do the transcription. They do not.
How on earth do you take that to mean 'their service does what it says'?
You are wrong.
When we repealed the (very good) legislation enacted in response to the Great Depression, we restore to market to its natural boom-bust cycle. We'll keep going through these periods until we restore the safeguards that our great-grandparents wisely created. Even without the dubious benefits of computer models and Chicago economics, these people gave us 50 years of prosperity that we've managed to wreck in a decade. Shouldn't we stop arrogantly assuming that they were wrong, we are right, and accept that we might need regulation after all?
Losing your job to Bender: technological progress.
Losing your job to Apu: outrage.
But really, what's the difference? A service is a service. It's all progress .. sort of.
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Where are we as a species, if making babies is a fetish?
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I don't quite see how you can blame this on Evangelics, whether they're real Evangelics or just by name.
The cause of economic downfall is almost always plain greed.
'For we walk by faith, not by sight.' II Corinthians 5:7