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</div><div>=</div><div><b style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">MIT is collaborating with a Chinese company called iFlytek, which supplied voice recognition technology to Xinjiang</b><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" font-weight="font-weight" inherit="inherit">. By the way, this is why we're using a voice actor for Alim. China has his voice now. And engineers at NPR told us, even if we tried distorting Alim's voice to protect his identity, it could be reverse-engineered.</span></div><div>=</div><div>
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</font></div><div style=""><div data-component="text-block" class="ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i85" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1rem 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 36.25rem;"><div class="ssrcss-17j9f6r-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"With this new platform, with Tensor, we've literally designed the platform to to be able to support he most cutting-edge work we have in all aspects of AI."</font></p></div></div><div data-component="text-block" class="ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i85" style="margin: 1rem 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 36.25rem;"><div class="ssrcss-17j9f6r-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One of those is what Google calls a "magic eraser" - a system where the Photos app will detect distractions in the photo such as someone walking in the background, and try to remove them. The company says it can also be used for things such as power poles or wires, and users can manually select things to remove as well as the automatic system.</font></p><div data-component="text-block" class="ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i85" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: inherit; margin: 1rem 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 36.25rem;"><div class="ssrcss-17j9f6r-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Another new feature is "face deblur".</font></p></div></div><div data-component="text-block" class="ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i85" style="margin: 1rem 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 36.25rem;"><div class="ssrcss-17j9f6r-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When taking a photo with the rear-facing camera, it will use all available cameras and take multiple versions. So if a person is constantly moving - such as Google's example of a young child - the camera will attempt to fix a blurry face by combining all the data, and attempt to figure out what the non-blurred version should look like....</font></p><div data-component="text-block" class="ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i85" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1rem 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 36.25rem;"><div class="ssrcss-17j9f6r-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="font-weight: inherit;">For example, it says that </span><b>voice transcription </b><span style="font-weight: inherit;">- which now uses the Google Assistant - will be faster and more accurate. Users can say "Hey Google, type" instead of tapping a button, and can also use voice commands to send messages. The voice system can be used at the same time as the text keyboard.</span></font></p></div></div><div data-component="text-block" class="ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i85" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: inherit; margin: 1rem 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 36.25rem;"><div class="ssrcss-17j9f6r-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Google's recorder app also leverages the snappier processor to live-transcribe audio recordings as they're made, even when the phone is not connected to the internet.</font></p></div></div><div data-component="text-block" class="ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i85" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: inherit; margin: 1rem 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 36.25rem;"><div class="ssrcss-17j9f6r-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It also means that Google's live translation features are snappier than before, as more of the processing is done on the machine itself.</font></p></div></div><div data-component="text-block" class="ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i85" style="font-weight: inherit; margin: 1rem 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 36.25rem;"><div class="ssrcss-17j9f6r-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But it does not mean that Google Assistant will work perfectly offline for </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">privacy campaigners</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></font></p></div></div><div data-component="text-block" class="ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i85" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1rem 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 36.25rem;"><div class="ssrcss-17j9f6r-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b>"To be really useful, you need to assume that it's going to use the cloud,</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;">" Mr Osterloh said.</span></font></p></div></div><div data-component="text-block" class="ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i85" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: inherit; margin: 1rem 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 36.25rem;"><div class="ssrcss-17j9f6r-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"The speech recognition part of that workflow will happen on the device... [and] all the dictation"....</font></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div></div><div>=</div>