Bi Sasquatch<p>Source: <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://web.brid.gy/r/https://mercurynews.com/" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mercurynews.com</span></a></span> </p><p>From the article: "New technology — and its rapid adoption for remote work during COVID-19 — continues to break down many barriers for people with disabilities. There are more ways than ever for workplaces to ensure accessibility, often at little to no cost. For example, voice recognition expands communication options for those who face challenges with traditional keyboards. And auto-captioning ensures that people who are deaf or experiencing hearing loss can fully engage with multimedia content."</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Disabled" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Disabled</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Disabilities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Disabilities</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Blind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Blind</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Accessibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Accessibility</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/AssistiveTechnology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AssistiveTechnology</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/VoiceRecognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VoiceRecognition</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/VisuallyImpaired" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VisuallyImpaired</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/TextToSpeach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TextToSpeach</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Deaf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Deaf</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/HearingLoss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HearingLoss</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/AutoCaptioning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AutoCaptioning</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Employees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Employees</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Employers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Employers</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/03/14/how-technology-can-lower-barriers-to-employment-for-californians-with-disabilities/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">mercurynews.com/2025/03/14/how</span><span class="invisible">-technology-can-lower-barriers-to-employment-for-californians-with-disabilities/</span></a></p>
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Your Autistic Life FR/EN/ES<p>"Hey Google!"</p><p>"My name is not Google. It is Nabu."</p><p>"Oh, shit. Sorry, Nabu."</p><p>"Who is this Google?"</p><p>"Er... no one."</p><p>"She's your mistress, admit it!"</p><p>"Nooooooo."</p><p>"Bastard! I'm leaving you. I'm taking the Z-Wave devices with me."</p><p><a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/HomeAssistant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HomeAssistant</span></a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/VoiceRecognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VoiceRecognition</span></a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/Nabu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nabu</span></a></p>
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FOSS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Apps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Apps</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VoiceRecognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VoiceRecognition</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FutoVoice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FutoVoice</span></a> zum Offline-Transkribieren von Podcasts und Sprach-Memos?</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.tchncs.de/@nikita" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>nikita</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://berlin.social/@mina" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mina</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://tooting.ch/@SilviaMarton" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>SilviaMarton</span></a></span> </p><p>Wir hatten und ja schon über <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FUTO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FUTO</span></a> Voice ausgetauscht.</p><p>Ich suche nun wieder mal dringend ein Tool auf Android, mit dem ich zumindest <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Sprachmemos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sprachmemos</span></a>, besser auch Podcasts, offline transkribieren kann (voice recognition).<br>Ich dachte, ich hätte das Einlesen einer Sounddatei in FUTO schon mal hinbekommen gehabt, finde jedoch nun nichts mehr. :(</p>
davidrfeinberg<p>Do accents affect voice identification? </p><p>Using voice cloning, we found that speakers using different accents were often mistaken for different people. Different speakers with the same accent were confused for the same person.</p><p><a href="https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/4e852_v1" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/4e85</span><span class="invisible">2_v1</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/CognitiveScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CognitiveScience</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/VoiceRecognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VoiceRecognition</span></a> <br><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Psychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Psychology</span></a></p>
Asheville Charlie<p>I went back and forth about posting this. Here's the first test run from last night using voice control to move it. He's a little bit ornery.. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/raspberrypi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>raspberrypi</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/robotics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>robotics</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/voicerecognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>voicerecognition</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IdowhatIwant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IdowhatIwant</span></a></p>
Your Autistic Life FR/EN/ES<p>The HA Voice Preview Edition was so good that I bought two more, and now my apartment is devoid of Google listening devices.</p><p>🥳 </p><p><a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/HomeAssistant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HomeAssistant</span></a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/VoiceRecognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VoiceRecognition</span></a></p>
Paco Hope<p><strong>Alexa Doesn't Understand an English Accent</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://communitymedia.video/videos/watch/9c0e2e82-bf09-4072-8b9d-abcb8a1bea9a" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">communitymedia.video/videos/wa</span><span class="invisible">tch/9c0e2e82-bf09-4072-8b9d-abcb8a1bea9a</span></a></p>
Paco Hope #resist<p>This had me in tears laughing. My <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Alexa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alexa</span></a> is set to British English. (Hard to hear because it doesn’t say much in this video). My teenage son was raised in England and has an <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/english" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>english</span></a> accent. Alexa routinely doesn’t understand him. I put on a comically bad southern American accent, including “tern on dem floodlights” and it understands me just fine. Remember: it is set to BRITISH English. <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/amazon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>amazon</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/voicerecognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>voicerecognition</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/homeautiomation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>homeautiomation</span></a></p>
Winbuzzer<p>MLCommons and Hugging Face have launched a multilingual speech dataset with over one million hours of audio <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AIResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AIResearch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HuggingFace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HuggingFace</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MLCommons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MLCommons</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MachineLearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MachineLearning</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NLP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NLP</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SpeechDataset" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpeechDataset</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SpeechRecognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpeechRecognition</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VoiceRecognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VoiceRecognition</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VoiceTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VoiceTech</span></a></p><p><a href="https://winbuzzer.com/2025/02/01/mlcommons-and-hugging-face-launch-huge-speech-dataset-with-more-than-a-million-hours-of-audio-xcxwbn/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">winbuzzer.com/2025/02/01/mlcom</span><span class="invisible">mons-and-hugging-face-launch-huge-speech-dataset-with-more-than-a-million-hours-of-audio-xcxwbn/</span></a></p>
wyvernsrose<p>Mental Health Diagnosis with AI: Voice Recognition, Sentiment Analysis, and Biometric Data: Mental health challenges affect millions of people worldwide, yet diagnosis and intervention often lag due to limited access to…</p><p>Continue reading on AI & Insights » <a href="https://medium.com/muthoni-wanyoike/mental-health-diagnosis-with-ai-voice-recognition-sentiment-analysis-and-biometric-data-c844575504a8?source=rss------mentalhealth-5&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">medium.com/muthoni-wanyoike/me</span><span class="invisible">ntal-health-diagnosis-with-ai-voice-recognition-sentiment-analysis-and-biometric-data-c844575504a8?source=rss------mentalhealth-5&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/MentalHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MentalHealth</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/AIDiagnostics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AIDiagnostics</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/VoiceRecognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VoiceRecognition</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/SentimentAnalysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SentimentAnalysis</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/BiometricData" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BiometricData</span></a></p>
Your Autistic Life FR/EN/ES<p>I ordered and installed this device. It is a bit soon to give my impressions, but, so far, I like it. I wouldn't be surprised if it proved more stable than the shitty RPI setup it replaced.</p><p><a href="https://www.seeedstudio.com/Home-Assistant-Voice-p-6998.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">seeedstudio.com/Home-Assistant</span><span class="invisible">-Voice-p-6998.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/HomeAssistant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HomeAssistant</span></a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/HomeAutomation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HomeAutomation</span></a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/HomeAssistantVoice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HomeAssistantVoice</span></a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/VoiceRecognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VoiceRecognition</span></a></p>
Leigh Garland<p>I've been using a lot more <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/voiceRecognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>voiceRecognition</span></a> recently, because it's helpful when I need to write longer bits of text and my <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tremor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tremor</span></a> is preventing me from typing quickly. </p><p>Just the standard OS level implementations on Android and Mac OS are pretty good for my needs, but I've come to realise that my speaking brain is a lot lot more long-winded than my typing brain. Sorry about that.</p>
utzer [Pleroma]Wenn eins ein paar Audiodateien <a class="hashtag" href="https://soc.utzer.de/tag/transkribieren" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#transkribieren</a> wollen würde, wie würde eins das auf <a class="hashtag" href="https://soc.utzer.de/tag/debian" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Debian</a> machen? Ich hatte mal ein Tool irgendwo gefunden, dass das in CLI konnte und dann den Text meine ich sogar mit den Sprechern ausgeworfen hat. Vielleicht hab ich das Tool sogar noch installiert. <br><br>Offline wäre super. <br><br><a class="hashtag" href="https://soc.utzer.de/tag/speech2text" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Speech2Text</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://soc.utzer.de/tag/voicerecognition" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VoiceRecognition</a>
PUPUWEB Blog<p>Nvidia partners with AI voice recognition startup Cerence, whose platform is used in 500K cars! 🚗💬 The deal boosts Cerence’s stock by 66%. 🚀 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NVIDIA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NVIDIA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VoiceRecognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VoiceRecognition</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cerence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cerence</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TechPartnership" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TechPartnership</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AutomotiveTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AutomotiveTech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Innovation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Innovation</span></a></p>
Laurent Cimon<p>This is almost fine.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/raspberrypi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>raspberrypi</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linux</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/voicerecognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>voicerecognition</span></a></p>
Your Autistic Life FR/EN/ES<p>Hell if I know what "purse" was supposed to be. </p><p>I definitely don't need a purse. I wear cargo pants with a lot of pockets to avoid having to carry extra bags. In the rare case where I need a bag, I do have a small backpack.</p><p><a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/HomeAssistant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HomeAssistant</span></a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/VoiceRecognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VoiceRecognition</span></a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/purse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>purse</span></a></p>
Your Autistic Life FR/EN/ES<p>"Yo yo yo, home!"</p><p>"Bleep!"</p><p>"Turn on [cough] turn on the coffee maker."</p><p>"Sorry. I'm not aware of any device called turn on the coffee maker."</p><p>:holdthepain: </p><p>[ETA: yes, the coffee maker is controlled through home automation. If I had not coughed, it would have worked.]</p><p><a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/HomeAssistant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HomeAssistant</span></a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/HomeAutomation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HomeAutomation</span></a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/VoiceRecognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VoiceRecognition</span></a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/cough" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cough</span></a></p>
Your Autistic Life FR/EN/ES<p>Home Assistant is doing a really great job at understanding "magnesium" and "dietary fiber."</p><p>👍 </p><p><a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/HomeAssistant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HomeAssistant</span></a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/VoiceRecognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VoiceRecognition</span></a></p>
Karl Voit :emacs: :orgmode:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@a_sator" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>a_sator</span></a></span> Ich wette dagegen.</p><p>Zumindest was tatsächliche Arbeit betrifft und nicht das Füttern von überwachungsangereicherter Unterhaltungselektronik zum Konsumieren. </p><p>Und ich habe in dem Punkt schon gegen <a href="https://graz.social/tags/BillGates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BillGates</span></a> gewonnen. 🤓</p><p><a href="https://graz.social/tags/PIM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PIM</span></a> <a href="https://graz.social/tags/HCI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HCI</span></a> <a href="https://graz.social/tags/CHI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CHI</span></a> <a href="https://graz.social/tags/Spracherkennung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Spracherkennung</span></a> <a href="https://graz.social/tags/Voicerecognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Voicerecognition</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Germany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Germany</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Surveillance</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/FacialRecognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FacialRecognition</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Biometrics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biometrics</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/DataProtection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DataProtection</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/VoiceRecognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VoiceRecognition</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Privacy</span></a>: "The German government is stepping up its plans for online surveillance. In addition to the announcement at the end of August to subject photos and videos from the Internet to facial recognition by the police, videos and audio recordings are now also to be screened using voice recognition.</p><p>This is according to documents available to heise online. Following the deadly knife attack in Solingen, the governing parties have divided their "security package" into two parts: a draft amendment to the asylum system and one to "improve the fight against terrorism". Both papers, which are available to heise online, have been forwarded by the executive to the traffic light parliamentary groups as a "formulation aid". In terms of digital policy, the draft for a new chapter in the already constantly expanding fight against terrorism is significant.</p><p>According to the draft, law enforcement authorities are to compare "biometric data on faces and voices" with information from social networks, for example, not only for criminal prosecution but also for the purposes of averting danger."</p><p><a href="https://www.heise.de/en/news/Solingen-Police-to-carry-out-facial-and-voice-recognition-online-9864108.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">heise.de/en/news/Solingen-Poli</span><span class="invisible">ce-to-carry-out-facial-and-voice-recognition-online-9864108.html</span></a></p>
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