Olle Sjostrom

And sometimes all you need is a wrench and a hammer.

I reread this post and found that you could read a lot of snark into it, didn’t mean it that way at all! So please have that in mind… These ” far superior” options haven’t really been around for that long, so you haven’t been in the dark exactly. There’s already kind of a plethora of them and all equally usable. If you think of it as different tools, specifically screwdrivers, I’d say izotope is a screwdriver with replaceable bits of a higher standard than your regular Target (or equivalent) screwdrivers might be, whereas the DxRevive is maybe a specialized special metal screwdriver that will work on most screws but not all, and the other ones are just variations on that. No one of them really offers a way to very easily apply them and get a good result, they still need tweaking and listening before applying. Izotope is going to see itself outrun in a few years unless they come up with something really bonkers mindblowingly crazy in like a year, like stem separating speech from a live feed and cleaning it with no audible artifacts, accurately identifying accents and language quirks, generating text and making that text editable and still match the source like Jim mentioned.. (I mean those things will probably happen within two years or is already in the works) but still I don’t feel like it’s ever going to be not a tool. There are no things that can do EVERYTHING. If that were the case than we’d have ONE audio recorder and ONE microphone… i guess what I’m saying is that new tools are great and they make things sound good, but they still need post producing and curating. I work in radio, and most journalists are not interested in good sounding material, they want the “text” or audible speech, not good sounding speech. These AI tools are great for “rescuing” bad audio, but the downside is - now they have even more reason not to properly learn to capture good sounding speech! And since bad audio = bad audio however you look at it, then.. well. Maybe that will change someday, if someone comes up with a way to physically move the sound source to the microphone instead of the other way around… sorry for getting all philosophical, too

It was probably the first version, early. I bet you none of the pro AI models can do my tapes any good, unfortunately. At least the ones with real bad noise..

I used it as a beta tester but only for one thing really: my recordings of myself as a kid in cassettes. Those tapes were recorded on just a regular tape player standing on a table in my room so totally worthless audio wise. Thought maybe re-synthesizing my voice with material from other recordings could help, but no… first barrier of course being the language. One recording I used Adobe Podcast on came back sounding like every single language, it even changed my voice from female to male at points. So, totally worthless material still equals worthless after that. But that figures, obviously.

When you say the whole boat I basically a hot tub, is it in fact just a floating hot tub? Or is there some motor on it, or anywhere where crew could be sitting?

Well, yes that's right, we call it East Sea instead of the Baltic Sea. But! That name change was not due to some authoritarian leader in a country and Google hasn't changed it because someone asked them to. When I wrote my post I didn't actually know it was a decision made by the administration, and Google renamed it because of that. You COULD interpret that as just abiding, or taking sides, or Trump's administration being authoritarian and/or showing colonial tendencies. I'm leaning towards Trump is just saying stuff, playing a Big Guy and maybe there's not much weight to those words. And this might just be a small detail, but still. It's interesting that you can change a name like that. If it were that all of USA, Canada, all of the Caribbean and most other countries in america called the gulf "Gulf of America", then I'll change my mind. My understanding is that Trump just wants to call it Gulf of America and then Google changed the name. I could be wrong of course.

Oh no.. so sorry Jeff.

This a reply from my iPhone using Edge. I think it’s working?

Well, if a leader says "let's rename this geographical location that is called the exact same thing all over the world" and gets to do that, is that not authoritarian? I'm not saying it's a dictatorship, you have chosen a leader (Putin was also elected once, btw). But still, the devil is in the details. And renaming a very important geographical location (a pretty huge one as well) is hardly a detail. I dunno. It's foreshadowing in my book. Let's hope nothing else happens.

So I just got the news that google decided to rename the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America in Google Maps. So starting to not being funny at all even more. If a giant corporation like that can make changes like that, laying the way for more authoritarian moves on Trumps part… dark. oh hey here I was thinking google was being a doormat, but it turns out I had missed the part about renaming the gulf was actually a decision made by the administration and not by google… Wow. That’s some Putin shit right there

Sounds like maybe a Cantar X3 might tick your boxes. But I haven’t actually used one so I wouldn’t know sound wise, but on paper it looks and sounds like a device that would cater all your needs. Only problem is they’re not making them anymore, but you can find them second hand I guess

And what is the only country ever to have used a nuke to actually kill? also, I don’t know either what Russia and china are doing to their people, but the narrative is heavily US positive here in the western world. And I’m not convinced that the US is ”good” in that sense, more than any other countries. I mean I can’t say that there’s any one Right Country in this political landscape, they’re all trying to gain power in one way or another. Sure, if rather let a democratic power have the rights to things, but I’d rather choose to not have to be influenced by warmongering crazy rich people. But that’s not a choice I have because people with power are going to rule with iron fists, no matter if they’re democratically elected or not. It’s the same thing. In my book… I mean yeah we couldn’t choose not to join NATO for example. this was a huge derail, I’m sorry. The whole crazy world leader thing is appalling right now. Israel Palestine, Russia Ukraine, Trump/Elon vs World (both virtual and physical Greenland and hitler salute shenanigans)…

So let’s say a rich democracy with huge military and economic power allows for companies to grow huge and in and of themselves be a power big enough to crush other smaller companies and/or even countries. Let’s say this company wants to limit the use of its products in a specific country, even though the market of these products is “free” or liberal. Is that still democracy? Or free? Or liberal? Are huge conglomerates not a power big enough to sway different policies in different countries? Are those companies not very much like in 1700s Europe and elsewhere, where the rich land owners owned people and property and ruled over them with no regards to, say, livelihood or rights? Like a feodal community almost. Or are they just a product of democracy and liberalism? All the shiitake that Russia and china are doing to their people is terrible, but from my pov, the western capitalist democracy where we, like cattle, are being persuaded into, and get stuck to, products that lock us into an ecosystem, is equally bad.

We’ll know in a few years I guess

Yeah you have a weird president saying funny things jokingly (maybe?) , being a bully and so on. Hardly funny. Hardly funny that that kind of a guy with that kind of power has a buddy who (kind of) owns space, the internet, our cars, our brains (possibly). I doubt think trump is scary at all, he’s just a bully albeit with enormous power, whereas Elon is a real scary dude. as for Europe.. I mean you can’t just say Europe and mean all the countries, we are extremely different, not at all like your states. And far right wing almost nazi politics is hardly a joke either, and we’re seeing the rise of it in some countries, which is scary. Not saying we’re not a joke though. But it’s not funny. i would argue the whole world is a joke, but you know who’s inspiring us westerners the most? and… did he just make that salute?