#speech processing

[jaimedavid27]

Musing Mondays #5: The Cost of Convenience: How AI Voice Assistants Are Changing Customer Experience

Technology is evolving at a rapid pace, and with it comes a slew of innovations that promise to make our lives easier. One area where this is particularly visible is in the realm of customer service, where automated voice assistants are increasingly replacing human operators. While these systems are designed to streamline processes and improve efficiency, they can also introduce a host of new…

[mythicalcoolkid]

You don't wish your disability was worse or more visible, you wish your disability was taken seriously. Please stop confusing the two, I guarantee you would not get the support you need JUST by being more severe or more visible. Please listen to visibly disabled people when we tell you it isn't better on our side

[onlytiktoks]

[redthemarten]

Just admit that you miss him...

[lovesodeepandwideandwell]

Fills me with RAGE that the Trinity Santos thinkpieces are about "wow we hated her because she was a jerk and suspected our favorite white boy of stealing meds but she was RIGHT and that blew all our minds! Unpleasant women can be right too!" And not "wow this interesting character who builds fraught connections with half the people in this building and has a weird relationship with male authority was revealed to have been molested in a scene where she protects someone else from the same thing, what a complex heroine"

[my-midlife-crisis]

"We didn't vote for this!"

Bullshit!

Yeah you did.

[rystiel]

well that’s one way to come out i guess

[pluralthey]

idletry has over 100 pages sketched now, so i wanted to post a little morsel of each scene :) i don't work as fast as i used to, but i'm glad to feel like i've made a significant amount of pages so far.

[cosmic-nia]

[ Polka belongs to @catamount7755 ]

i’ve been meaning to draw these two again ugghhh 😭 they would SO TOTALLY be best friends/homies frfr

the best way i can describe how i hc their friendship dynamic is like. basically Dan and Arin from the Game Grumps in a way kinda lmao

[CATAAA i hope you like thesee :33 been loving your recent polka posts lately and it managed to kickstart my motivation to finish these- i love drawing your silly lil guy hehe]

[political-us]

[rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world]

#Repost @ajplus

A U.S. immigration judge is allowing the Trump administration to deport Palestinian legal U.S. resident Mahmoud Khalil over his political beliefs and nonviolent activism.

Judge Jamee Comans said she has no authority to overrule the Trump administration’s decision to deport Khalil, who was arrested on March 8 in New York City and eventually sent to a detention facility almost 2,000 kilometers away in Louisiana.

Khalil served as a negotiator at student protests against Israel’s genocide in Gaza at Columbia University. The Trump administration offered no public evidence against Khalil and did not charge him for any crime, but claimed he should be deported over his beliefs – “past, current or expected.”

Khalil’s attorneys reportedly have until April 23 to request a stay of deportation.

Here’s what you need to know.

#Gaza #Trump #Palestine #Israel #Immigration #MahmoudKhalil #Palestinian #Columbia #Louisiana

[contemplatingoutlander]

The Boston Globe: Rümeysa Öztürk: What to know about the Tufts student arrested by immigration officials

Rümeysa Öztürk is a 30 year old Turkish national. She had a valid student visa and until recently was pursuing her third year of doctoral studies at the Tufts University Elliot-Pearson Child Study and Human Development program.

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Late on March 25, 2025, while on her her way to end her daily Ramadan fast with friends, Rümeysa was arrested by DHS agents (some in masks), and taken across state lines, without advance notification, despite a Massachusetts court order (although the DOJ claims she was moved before the court order).

If you haven't heard this slightly built woman cry out in fear, go watch this video. It is heartbreaking.

Rümeysa is currently being detained for possible deportation at the South Louisiana ICE Processing Center in Basile.

South Louisiana ICE Processing Center

Rümeysa's only "crime" seems to have been being one of four authors of a year-old op-ed in a university newspaper (The Tufts Daily) expressing dismay that the Tuft administration was being "dismissive of" some student senate resolutions calling upon Tufts "to divest from companies with direct or indirect ties to Israel."

Yet, the Trump administration, in its haste (and incompetence) to deport immigrants, appears to have incorrectly prejudged Rümeysa to be one of the "bad people" that Trump's administration claims they are rounding up to protect Americans.

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TRUMP: We're getting rid of a lot of bad people…. They’re being taken out. And we hope this court system that's become so active all of a sudden in trying to protect some very, very bad uh… people of crime. Uh, they have to stop.

We already know that the incompetent and cruel Trump administration, has sent innocent people to El Slavador's horrible CECOT prison, like Andrys, a gay, Venezuelan make-up artist who was mistaken to be a member of the Tren de Aragua gang because of his tattoos.

And yet, the Trump administration, as always, denies making mistakes and Trump rails against the judges who are trying to stop innocent people like Rümeysa and Andrys from the cruel excesses of the administration's (often incompetent) deportation practices.

According to CNN, Secretary of State Marco "Rubio suggested without evidence [that Rümeysa] was involved in disruptive student protests over Israel’s military operations in Gaza." Yet, her brother Asim, claimed that aside from cowriting the op-ed, Rümeysa did NOT engage "in any provocative or aggressive action regarding the Palestine issue." And, according to The Boston Globe, people at Tufts who knew Rümeysa said "that she wasn't necessarily a leader of campus activism at Tufts, though she did support Palestinian human rights."

According to a lovely tribute to Rümeysa written by her department at Tufts, she is studying child and adolescent development, and appears to be a caring individual who is highly valued by the Tuft's community. As such, she did not deserve to be spirited away to an ICE detention facility and potentially have her life and graduate studies derailed by an unfair deportation.

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And to think that many of Trump's MAGA followers cheer on this cruel behavior of ICE towards law abiding legal immigrants like Rümeysa whose only "crimes" are that they have chosen in the recent past to express opinions against the needless suffering and deaths of tens of thousands of civilian women, children, and men in Gaza.

STOP THE SIMPLISTIC BLACK-AND-WHITE THINKING: Just because people don't agree with the slaughter of the Gazan people does NOT mean they are pro-Hamas, or support the horrific Oct. 7th terrorist attack against Israel. It is this simplistic black-and-white thinking that Trump's administration and Marco Rubio's State Department are using as a justification for terrorizing innocent graduate students like Rümeysa.

Under Trump, America is being led down a dark path of hate and scapegoating that is limiting the rights of due process of many people in marginalized groups. Trump loves to talk about how his deportation policies are "getting rid of a lot of bad people." But if we as a nation do not ensure due process so that innocents are not swept up and unduly punished in Trump's efforts to control immigration, then we collectively are allowing our nation to become no better than autocracies like Russia and China.

[Below the cut are transcripts of The Boston Globe "Rümeysa Öztürk" video and of the captions in the above gifs made from the The New York Times Video of "Surveillance Footage Shows ICE Arrest of Tufts Student." Below the cut is also an excerpt from a beautiful tribute to Rümeysa from her department at Tufts.]

Above is a link to a truly beautiful tribute to Rümeysa from the people in her department at Tufts. Here is an excerpt from that tribute:

Rumeysa’s presence on campus has been missed, as her genuineness and care for others have been felt deeply here at Tufts. Her fellow students put it best: “Rumeysa is usually the first to arrive on campus: she boils water in the kettle and is ready with a warm greeting. Today, she is still everywhere with us. She is in the Turkish tea that we brewed this morning; she is at the top of our inboxes, planning the pastries she would bring to our iftar tomorrow evening; she is on the wall with her byline in an article about refugee representation in children's television and in a colorful Istanbul postcard; she is in the red swivel chair that she always sits in. Even in a department focused on human development, Rumeysa stands out as someone who reminds us daily of the importance of protecting children, cultivating joy, and connecting to our own deeper humanity. We are not the same without her steady, gentle presence”.

The Boston Globe "Rümeysa Öztürk" Video Transcript

GIULIA MCDONNELL NIETO DEL RIO (NARRATOR): On Tuesday, federal immigration authorities detained Tufts PhD student Rümeysa Öztürk, who is a Turkish national here on a valid visa, according to her attorney, and took her into ICE custody. Video obtained by the Globe shows plainclothes immigration agents approaching Öztürk as she's walking on the sidewalk in Somerville. Öztürk’s attorney has filed a habeas petition in Boston Federal Court asking her client to be released from ICE custody. Öztürk’s arrest comes as the Trump administration is cracking down on illegal immigrants here on green cards or visas, who have participated in some way or another in pro-Palestinian activism on campuses. However, those who know Öztürk told the Globe that she wasn't necessarily a leader of campus activism at Tufts, though she did support Palestinian human rights. Advocates and professors who knew Öztürk said they were absolutely shocked by the apprehension of her by federal immigration authorities. Questions remain about why Öztürk was apprehended as she was here legally on a student visa. Her attorneys and community advocates are pushing to get answers.

Transcript of Captions in Gifs Made From The New York Times Video of "Surveillance Footage Shows ICE Arrest of Tufts Student"

FIRST GIF CAPTIONS: A security camera captured the moment a Tufts University student was arrested by agents from the Department of Homeland Security. Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish citizen, had a valid student visa, according to a statement from her lawyer. SECOND GIF CAPTIONS: Ozturk, who is Muslim, was heading out to break her Ramadan fast with friends when she was detained. The university’s president said administrators were told that Ozturk’s visa had been terminated. The university is trying to verify whether that information is true. THIRD GIF CAPTIONS: Ozturk was listed as a co-author for an opinion essay that criticized university leaders for their stance on the war in Gaza. FOURTH GIF CAPTIONS: A spokesman for Customs and Border Protection did not immediately respond to questions about the case on Wednesday.

[inamindfarfaraway]

I love how Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse said “Anyone can be Spider-Man”. I love how it inspired everyone to imagine their own Spider-People, saving the day in their own universes, with all kinds of cool, interesting personalities and aesthetics and mutations and life stories and relationships. We all put pieces of our soul into these homemade heroes. We had fun. We found community. And then Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse said, “Wow, great job! You’ve really taken our message to heart. Well, get ready for even more of everything you liked from the first movie and a new message to complement the first. Anyone can be Spider-Man… and anyone can be pulled into a cult.”

So now we all have to contemplate whether our lovingly crafted heroes would ever be on Team Mandatory Trauma Because Martyr Complex or not and why.

[dullahandyke]

'eimear you keep making the same exact post' well once again i must reiterate he is the illusions guy

[ID: a picture of Ienzo from Kingdom Hearts, saying, "Hi guys I'm soooo well-adjusted and nice now! Don't worry about the whole 'growing up in an emotional suppression cult for all my most formative years' thing, or the 'used to be renowned for being mean and manipulative' thing. I'm friendly and normal nowwwwww, trust." A large red arrow points to him and loudly says, "The fucking illusions guy."]

[clockwayswrites]

Sometimes creating for me, especially writing, is just sitting there desperately going "that's good enough, right? That has to be good enough."

Which sounds harsh, and it can be, but also as a recovering perfectionist letting it be good enough is a victory.

[yourgoldennotebook]

taylor swift + fame — the lucky one & the tortured poets department: the anthology parallels

“Well, thanks, guys! This is a little one that I re-fell in love with while re-recording. It’s about how horrible being famous is.” — TAYLOR BEFORE PLAYING THE LUCKY ONE (PIANO) IN ARLINGTON, TX, ON APRIL 2nd