Tipsy tongues tell all: How your sloshed speech could snitch to Siri Wondering if that wee tipple was a bit too much? Someday soon your sloshed speech may spill your secrets to your resident digital assistant as easily as you stumble through a tongue-twister. A group of researchers from Stanford University in the US and the University of Toronto in Canada have developed an algorithmic method of …
You can already get a discount on your insurance if you install a driving app on your smart phone and allow geolocation (i.e. everyone else is already paying too much), it's only a small step from there to throw Alexa/Siri/Google Now into the mix. No spying, everyone opts in of their own free will. You see, the market has an answer for everything.
I'm not surprised you could algorithmically detect intoxication at that level. What about intoxication at .08 or .05 where most places have the line drawn for impaired driving?
Though it is still not feasible as no one would accept having to read tongue twisters every time you start your car. And if you did, I wonder if you would become better at it with such daily sober practice to where you were able to do it better when drunk, defeating the algorithm's ability to detect intoxication?
By the time this hits the market, aren't we all supposed to be owning cars that drive us home from the pub?
Probably not in Britain though. At the current rate there will be no pubs here by then.
I prefer my scream detector to shut down industrial robots and equipment. You could do that on a Pi and have it out there in less than a year.
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