The new iOS rebrands Gemini as Siri - and from all accounts of the public beta, it's pretty decent, and an enormous upgrade from the current/old Siri.

I’m sure I read something about NEW SIRI somewhere. Siri isn’t just falling short, it seems to be getting actively and progressively more useless. My HomePod speakers take about 10 seconds to respond now and often get things wrong.

Siri is slowly getting better, but Apple's never been about matching the industry. They've always been about being the best Apple they can be. (They haven't followed this perfectly, but they keep re-learning it's the way, every time someone tries to mess with the formula.)

I don't think the people working on new hardware is the same that the one working on Siri.

If this gets good enough, you could imagine your phone periodically tracking body composition and combining it with wearables, bloodwork, glucose, etc. Suddenly some measurements that currently require a clinic and specialized equipment become essentially free and continuous.

...at the same time, giving Google/Apple photos of your body is creepy

I think the reasoning is that Google/Apple already have all your photos.

This hits home

I appreciate how the author is explicit about their bias.

This opinion piece is more what he wants to happen rather than what's actually happening on the ground

Just checked out the video...you, my friend, could be a professional voice actor (assuming that job still exists in the future).

Agreed. This could be a story about my last startup... A good reminder.

Great idea! I love the simplicity of this app.

This is great. I need to do audio work this coming week and was dreading Audacity.

Try Ocenaudio - I’ve used pretty much every audio editor free and paid for and this is my go to for a free editor.

I also cannot understand why anyone would recommend Audacity.

Hehe ditto

I get flak for this, but Audacity is my "proof" that GIMP's name is why people don't use it, not the UI.

Like GIMP, Audacity's UI is awful, but people still use it. :)

I used audacity 20 years ago and the interface is still the same. That is also worth something.

people use gimp too. and i bet there are more gimp users than audacity.

as for the UI, i don't get it. what's so bad about it? and how is this one better? i looked at both and ardour too. so far audacity is the only one that has a feature to detect silence and label it. it's pretty easy to use too. i use this to detect chapters and create a chapter index for audio books. last one i did this week took only a few minutes, and most of the time was typing the chapter titles into audacity. i could not figure out how to do this in ardour or audiomass

Have you tried Ocenaudio (which is roughly the same as old school Cool Edit/Audition?)

Far more intuitive, I think. Keyboard shortcuts and cutting and pasting similar to what you'd get in e.g. Word.

I spend a lot of time doing this too -- cutting up band rehearsal tapes into songs and exporting all. As weird as Audacity's UI is, I haven't found anything better than it at this.

i tried it. i could not find any functionality to detect silence. also no way to label selections. or do i use regions for that? it says mp3 does not support regions. no way to export a list of regions with timestamps.

i spent about 15 minutes trying to figure out the above. in audacity the whole book was done in 5 minutes.

also, i really don't get what is supposed to be better about that interface. both apps have text menus with lots of functions, and you have to know what the functions do by their name. that makes ocenaudio no easier than audacity in my opinion. and it's not even FOSS.

Ocenaudio is closed source, that may be one of the reasons someone might recommend Audacity over it.

when have you last tried audacity? it's been getting friendlier

Agreed but it’s still not a proper DAW and suffers from those limitations. It gets very rickety when you go beyond a basic stereo mix.

Audacity isn't trying to be "a proper DAW," it's OK to be just be an audio editor.

How much work would it be to compile Audacity for the web?

(I'm a bit behind on web technologies nowadays)

Has been done https://wavacity.com/

Have you tried Ardour? It's like a superset of Audacity.

Great use-case!