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MobileViews Podcast 444

In this podcast, Jon Westfall and I discuss:

• MobileViews mini-podcast 33: Testing Adobe Podcast beta – noise reduction & speech enhancement A/B comparison
• Is this Microsoft’s ChatGPT-powered Bing?
• MacWhisper is a macOS app that uses OpenAI to transcribe audio files into text
  Whisper Transcription
• Valentines day is coming up, maybe a good time to talk “Spouse Tech”?

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In this mini-podcast (4 minutes 45 seconds long), I give my initial impressions of Adobe Podcast beta which claims to reduce noise and enhance speech for podcasts.

I fed it a podcast recorded a few weeks ago (MobileViews Podcast 440). For this podcast, I used a low cost ($30) VIM VIP condenser mic. My podcast co-host, Jon Westfall, used a mic built into a headphone. So, we did not use any high end recording mics.

For this mini-podcast intro, I’m using an affordable $99 Blue Yeti condenser mic.

While Adobe Podcast appears to volume level multiple speakers, the noise reductions and speech enhancements seems to be doing clipping volume levels and then filtering out high frequencies. The result, to my ears, is a muddier sound than the original.

However, this may be because my podcast co-host Jon Westfall and I recorded this podcast using Microsoft Teams which performs real-time noise reduction. So, Adobe Podcast’s attempt to filter noise resulted in the muddier sound.

The lesson here is perform a test using any tool before

You can hear a short snippet of the original podcast recording and then the same snippet after it was processed by Adobe Podcast beta

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Jon Westfall and I are joined by guest panelist Jason Dunn for this podcast. We discussed

1. CNBC: Intel’s horrible 2022
2. Todd finally is making peace with Microsoft OneNote and To-Do
3. Apple’s Freeform in comparison with Microsoft Teams and a related discussion of the Electron framework
4. Jason’s experiences with electric vehicles, solar panels, and battery technology
5. Letting go of old but still functional gadgets
6. ChatGPT haiku 🙂

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Happy Lunar New Year: Year of the Water Rabbit
In this podcast, Jon Westfall and I discuss:

• Jon’s new BattlingPickle’s PsychOut Discord Server now in Beta… Come join and talk about psychology, technology, intersection of all of that.
• High school’s lights can’t be turned off because of a software failure
• New podcasts creation down
• GNU Octave scientific programming language
• Apple Lisa source code released
• CNET pausing AI article generation
• The Three Body Problem novel by Liu Cixin, which won the 2015 Hugo award for best novel, has been adapted as a TV series. The first episode is available for free on YouTube. The first 10 episodes of the 30 episode series are available on the Viki.com streaming service.

  YouTube

  Viki.com

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Jon Westfall and I briefly discuss my ongoing search for deciding how Apple’s Freeform fits into my note taking efforts. We also discuss Jon’s experience after upgrading from the first to second generation Apple AirPods Pro. However, we spend most of the podcast discussing the recent emergence of end-user accessible AI tools such as ChatGPT. In particular, we discuss Jon’s view of its impact in higher eduction. Note: Jon is an Associate Professor of Psychology.

• GPTZero: A college student created an app that can tell whether AI wrote an essay
• Microsoft Designer
• Canva Magic Write 25 queries in a lifetime for free users. 75 queries per month for paid users
• Canva Text to Image

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In this podcast, Jon Westfall and I discuss:

• Testing a $30 “VIMVIP USB Microphone, Microphone for Computer USB Mic for PC Desktop Laptop Condenser Microphone to Recording Podcast Gaming Streaming YouTube” that I bought back in Sept. 2020 to use in my office at work.
• Reinventing the 2008 Pulse LiveScribe smartpen in 2022. Excellent balanced review:
  LAMY Safari Smart Pen – Neolab NWP-F80 Review
• A recurring topic for this podcast is the shutting down of services over time: SPOT, GPRS, Blackberry, and, last week, Verizon’s 3G shutdown following the earlier 3G shutdown for AT&T and T-Mobile.
  Hundreds Of Honolulu Parking Meters Disabled By Verizon 3G Shutdown
• Operator and Directory Assistance won’t be available on AT&T PhoneS(formerly U-verse® Voice) starting on or after January 1, 2023
• CES 2023:
  Vaporware
  Withings U-Scan Will be available in Europe but not in the US until it gets approval as a health device
  Samsung Flex Hybrid Tablet
• Apple VR/AR headset rumors abound. Are we at all interested? Latest is that we’d see an announcement in mid-spring (pre-WWDC) and ship in the fall.

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