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'Remarkable success' using voice assistants for speech therapy. By David Braue on Jul 06 2021 10:09 AM Print article Pervasive AI-based smart speakers such as Amazon Alexa and Google Home have been maligned on privacy grounds, but new research suggests they may be invaluable in helping sufferers of Parkinson’s disease counter voice changes. The affliction’s progressive degeneration – which gives Parkinson’s patients a soft, monotone and hoarse sounding voice due to changes in muscle function – is found in 89 per cent of patients, and the vocal chord changes that it...
This article was originally published on The Conversation. These days, more and more people listen to music on streaming apps – in early 2020, 400 million people were subscribed to one. These platforms use algorithms to recommend music based on listening habits. The recommended songs might feature in new playlists or they might start to play automatically when another playlist has ended. But what the algorithms recommend is not always fair. In a new study we showed a widely used recommendation algorithm is more likely to pick music by male than female artists. In response, we've come up wit...
Bossy: Artificial, intelligent and female Jenny Kennedy: It doesn't really address one of the main problems, which is the type of work that these devices are brought into the home to do and the most appropriate ways of doing that kind of labor. It's very calculated and algorithmically managed. But it's also about how that kind of "wife work" is valued in the home, and the way in which we have previously valued or undervalued the people that are doing that work. In the book, we mention voice assistants used in other contexts. But we're looking specifically at voice assistants in the home. An...