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Help me understand Voice Recognition tech (lemm.ee)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Help me understand Voice Recognition tech

I am interested in getting an app that would allow me to make notes via voice-to-text. I work in a field with HIPAA protections. I'm having trouble figuring out the nuances of privacy related to these apps.

First off, is this kind of software considered "AI"? How does it even recognize that a sound equals a word? Do they use LLM tech? Does the tech learn to recognize my voice better over time? Does it use my recordings to learn to understand other's voices? Is this all a black box? How can I take precautions such that no one except me hears the things I transcribe?

This is just such confusing tech! It seems like it's fairly old and common but the more I think about it in relation to current age AI, the more creeped out I get! And yet my doctor uses one regularly... I'll be asking her about it too, don't worry.

Thank you!

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[–] Brokkr@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

My kid's doctor had service to transcribe the visits. Patients may opt out verbally. This is all through the hospital, so presumably it is HIPAA compliant.

Instead of creating your own solution that complies with HIPAA, it is probably easier to use one that already exists.

[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Well that's why I said I will be asking my doctor what she uses! And I likely wont be transcribing anything professional, but I do still have my phone on me in those settings. It's more about the fact that I don't want my own personal notes to be automatically handed to an LLM and regurgitated out into the world without my knowledge. If it can recognize and transcribe my speech, what's to stop it from using that to train an LLM, which in turn notoriously plagiarizes its training data?