A 1996 video describing how voice, text and multimedia sources could be gathered by the government

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[mairdie]

It's 21 years old, but interesting to see what was being proposed to the government as a way of collecting massive amounts of data and automatically processing it. This was before nav units in cars were common, and portable interaction was normal.

Another earlier video, our first home production, describes more nitty-gritty data collection by topic in various languages, with people able to correct and adjust confidence in the collected data. PLUM is referenced in the video above.
PLUM - Probabilistic Language Understanding Model

And the government has now had two decades to refine their massive data collection techniques.

[mairdie]

BBN was a block down the street from where I used to work. They did a lot of acoustic work, and some really nice speech recognition. Husband and I did these after we retired and were slowly putting together a system for quick video productions in our home.

[circlecity]

I’m convinced that all electronic data transmitted in this country is intercepted and archived by the government in those multi billion dollar data server centers built during the Obama administration.

[mairdie]

Agreed.

[cincinnati65]

With the IRS, the government has your financial 'life'.
With Facebook, the government gets your personal life.
With Google, the government gets your search history and your Android phone history.
With Amazon, the government gets your purchase history.

Consider that Facebook, Google, and Amazon were all going up against entrenched competitors, and yet somehow managed to wildly surpass and destroy these competitors -- all of them.

[cincinnati65]

Forgot the most important one:

With Obamacare, the government gets your medical history.

[mairdie]

It’s the collection of voice data that can be automatically analyzed (PLUM), that bothers me the most.

[goodnesswins]

I like writing letters...real, handwritten letters to certain people in my life.

[mairdie]

My handwriting has deteriorated so much that I fear such missives from me would have to be considered poor modern art.

But I also have a movie on handwriting recognition.

In fact, I was called into a microsoft suit and questioned for four hours about whether IBM’s gesture recognition was unique and early. All the members of the project had disappeared and my video was the only thing left for evidence.

[leaning conservative]

Bkmk

[Albion Wilde]

bump

[gaijin]

Later