So, audio AI are honorary blind people?

[kestrell]

Or am I an hnorary audio algorithm? Because I can do most of the things these AI can do.
While this may poke a ratioinal pin in the over-inflated balloon of blink superpowers, I can tell you, interpreting information from how people speak isn't rocket science. When people are lying, their voices tend to go up. When they are under stress or upset their body postures curl in on themselves, inhibiting the voice. When couples fight repeatedly, their arguments form patterns and, once name-calling comes into play, you can take a guess that that relationship is doomed. Even your facial expression affects the voice, and it's often easy to tell if someone is happy or sad. I think one could possibly even diagnose depression if one had access to a sampling of voice recordings.
This is why voice exercises are one of the first things acting classes focus on.
And yes, your phone is listening to you, because that's what it is programmed to do, not because it is trying to inform Big Brother what color your panties are.

And now you might be asking yourself, Can Kes tell what color my panties are?

*Kestrell smiles enigmatically.*

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Audio AI can't whack you with a cane

[jesse_the_k]

...which is another blind superpower.

Care to share a story of when you perceived something and non-blind people reacted in an interesting fashion?

[cvirtue]

.... or if one is wearing any panties at all?

[kestrell]

True story: I was sleeping over at an acquaintance's house one weekend, and her husband passed us in the hall and said, quite chirpily, "Good morning." Once he disappeared into a room, my friend said, "He was naked, by the way," and I replied, completely blase, "Yes, I know." She asked me how I knew and I said "There are two kinds of men in the world: those that sound embrassed when you accidentally catch them naked, and those that sound really proud of themselves."