Audacity has added AI audio editing capabilities thanks to Intel’s free OpenVINO plugins. These plugins add AI-powered noise suppression, speech transcription, music generation and remixing, and music separation to the freeware sound editor and are available for download today.
  • @[email protected]English
    51•11 months ago

    I thought audacity was tarnished with spyware or something these days. Is it safe again?

      • @drislandsEnglish
        22•11 months ago

        What? You must be joking. Really? The entire thing was about opt-in error reporting?

        … seriously, that can’t be it, can it?

        • Eager EagleEnglish
          32•11 months ago

          Not really that simple, it was an apparent change to the privacy policy that vaguely anticipated collection of arbitrary user data, which shook the confidence of the open source community on the project. The fact this happened right after audacity was sold was the cherry on top.

          https://github.com/audacity/audacity/issues/1213

          Changes were eventually reverted or revised.

          • @StereoTrespasserEnglish
            7•11 months ago

            If opt-in telemetry is spyware then the FOSS community truly is off the rails.

          • @[email protected]English
            1•11 months ago

            I’ve read this exact or very similar comment from you for the fourth time at least. You’re a spambot as far as I’m concerned.

      • @booksEnglish
        6•11 months ago

        Point a has always me me wonder, is that accurate? Are there actually people going through the code to make sure open source isn’t malicious? I can barely read my coworkers code… Let alone a strangers.

        • @aidanEnglish
          3•11 months ago

          Its way less work than going through the code to check for telemetry unless it is an intentionally hidden attack- just use Wireshark and check if there is network traffic other than checking for an update on program start.

        • @[email protected]English
          2•11 months ago

          If a project is popular people will make changes to it every day. But you can look at the repo and judge for yourself.

    • @[email protected]English
      74•11 months ago

      It was a pull request to add opt-out analytics that got blown out of proportion, where the real issue was the EULA and how tonedeaf of a move it was considering the community around Audacity. IIRC, they ended up replacing it with opt-in analytics.