Another week's over. Did you keep up with your Twitter feed? Did you catch up on all those blogs? No? Well, we did, so you can relax: here are the key happenings this week in the world of Natural Language Processing that we think are worth knowing about. Feel free to forward this to a friend. |
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Automated Voice Profiling Like many other aspects of AI, language technology is increasingly faced with ethical questions at every turn. This piece in The Intercept discusses the civil rights issues raised by technologies like Amazon's recent patent that extracts voice features such as accent, ethnic origin, emotion, gender, and age to better target advertising. |
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