Deepfake

Next-gen deepfakes can falsely put words in people's mouths:

https://newatlas.com/recycle-gan-deepfake/56280/?

Deepfake. It's a word that's entered the modern lexicon for all the wrong reasons. The technique can superimpose the likeness of one person onto a video of someone else. Now, new research could take deepfakes to the next level, taking the detailed content of one video and applying it to another.

Cool App.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1ONXea0mXg

SpeechTrans Ultimate App

The company SpeechTrans has a product called the SpeechTrans Ultimate App. It's available in versions for the iPad, iPhone and Android platforms. The application turns spoken words from one language into voice output in another by enabling text-to-text, text-to-speech, and two-way speech-to-speech communication translations in multiple languages.

Two-way speech communications are enabled for English, UK English, Spanish, French, Japanese, Italian, German and Mandarin Chinese. Text-to-speech is available for the preceding languages as well as Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Polish, Dutch, Swedish and Arabic.

The application also stores and can play back previous translations, without access to an Internet connection. In this version the auto-translate feature can be turned off, allowing same language conversations. Information from other applications can also be cut and pasted into SpeechTrans, so it can be translated and read aloud to another individual.

The ability to store and play back translations is a valuable feature for communicating frequently asked questions or phrases and to enable usage without an Internet connection. The Automatic Speech Recognition technology used in SpeechTrans Ultimate comes from Nuance Communications, a specialist in speech recognition and other technologies.

ChaCha

ChaCha is a human-powered search service where a use can text any question to 242242 (ChaCha) and receive a text message answer on their cell phones, usually within 5 minutes.

There is also a voice-based system@ 1-800-2Cha-Cha where one can ask a question and then hang-up. One then gets a text message confirming the question and then, within a few minutes, another text message with the answer.

Example:

Question: What is the current commute time on the Interstate 90 from O'Hare airport to downtown Chicago?

Answer: It is slow (20-30 mph) until Edens Kennedy junctions, then it is a parking lot. Take Rand to Northwest HWY, to Elson Ave.

Cognitive Radio

Cognitive radio, a phrase coined by Joe Mitola, is described by him as "a really smart radio that would be self-aware, and that would include language technology and machine vision, along with a high-fidelity knowledge of the radio environment."

To learn more take a look at the following sites:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_radio


http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=000C7B72-2374-13F6-A37483414B7F0000&print=true


http://www.fcc.gov/oet/cognitiveradio/

Michael Dell at CSIS

His topic is: "Simplification and Energy Efficiency: The Next Challenges for IT"

http://www.csis.org/component/option,com_csis_events/task,view/id,1385/