🇨🇳 Chinese Government Are Tighten Grip on Chinese People in All Kinds of Ways.

In Some Cities You Have to Be Facial Recognized to Take Subway! Fee Is Deducted Directly from Your Bank Account.

Surveillance Everywhere

#China #Facial #Recognition #biometrics

Meet 🇨🇳 Chinese Facial Recognition Vending Machine.

Fee Is Deducted Automatically from Your Bank Account❗️


#China #Facial #Recognition #biometrics

#Clearview AI ordered to delete all #facial #recognition data belonging to Australians

https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/3/22761001/clearview-ai-facial-recognition-australia-breach-data-delete

Facebook Is Shutting Down Its #Facial #Recognition System; Here’s Why

Back in 2017, Facebook started rolling out a facial recognition feature that detects you even in untagged photos. After making the feature opt-in in 2019, Facebook has surprised everyone with its decision to shut down the face recognition system on its platform. According to the company, the move is part of its efforts to limit the use of facial recognition in its products.

https://beebom.com/facebook-shutting-down-face-recognition-system-heres-why/

#fb

SongRec
An open-source Shazam client for Linux, written in Rust.

Features:

• Recognize audio from an audio file.
• Recognize audio from the microphone.
• Usage from both GUI and command line.
• Provide an history of the recognized songs.
• Continuous song detection.
• Ability to recognize songs from your speakers rather than your microphone.

Download: https://github.com/marin-m/SongRec#installation

https://github.com/marin-m/SongRec

@foss_desktop

#music #shazam #recognition

#USA's extortion tax scam #IRS is requiring #facial #recognition just to file taxes

No ID is needed to vote, but you need your face scanned and put into a database to pay their extortion.

https://www.businessinsider.com/irs-online-taxes-facial-recognition-selfies-2022-1

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/irs-require-facial-recognition-view-tax-returns

#biometrics

Europe Is Building a Huge International #Facial #Recognition System

"Lawmakers advance proposals to let police forces across the EU link their photo databases—which include millions of pictures of people’s faces."

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/europe-police-facial-recognition-prum

#biometrics #stalking #eu

Vosk Speech Recognition Toolkit

Vosk is an offline open source #speech #recognition toolkit. It enables speech recognition for 20+ languages and dialects - English, Indian English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Russian, Turkish, Vietnamese, Italian, Dutch, Catalan, Arabic, Greek, Farsi, Filipino, Ukrainian, Kazakh, Swedish, Japanese, Esperanto, Hindi, Czech. More to come.

Vosk models are small (50 Mb) but provide continuous large vocabulary transcription, zero-latency response with streaming API, reconfigurable vocabulary and speaker identification.

Speech recognition bindings implemented for various programming languages like Python, Java, Node.JS, C#, C++ and others.

Vosk supplies speech recognition for chatbots, smart home appliances, virtual assistants. It can also create subtitles for movies, transcription for lectures and interviews.

Vosk scales from small devices like Raspberry Pi or Android smartphone to big clusters.

https://t.me/speech_recognition

https://alphacephei.com/vosk

https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api