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Real-time Generation of Various Types of Nodding for Avatar Attentive Listening System
Kazushi Kato, Koji Inoue, Divesh Lala, Keiko Ochi, Tatsuya Kawahara
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23298

Real-time Generation of Various Types of Nodding for Avatar Attentive Listening System
In human dialogue, nonverbal information such as nodding and facial expressions is as crucial as verbal information, and spoken dialogue systems are also expected to express such nonverbal behaviors. We focus on nodding, which is critical in an attentive listening system, and propose a model that predicts both its timing and type in real time. The proposed model builds on the voice activity projection (VAP) model, which predicts voice activity from both listener and speaker audio. We extend it …

The Risks and Detection of Overestimated Privacy Protection in Voice Anonymisation
Michele Panariello, Sarina Meyer, Pierre Champion, Xiaoxiao Miao, Massimiliano Todisco, Ngoc Thang Vu, Nicholas Evans
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22534

The Risks and Detection of Overestimated Privacy Protection in Voice Anonymisation
Voice anonymisation aims to conceal the voice identity of speakers in speech recordings. Privacy protection is usually estimated from the difficulty of using a speaker verification system to re-identify the speaker post-anonymisation. Performance assessments are therefore dependent on the verification model as well as the anonymisation system. There is hence potential for privacy protection to be overestimated when the verification system is poorly trained, perhaps with mismatched data. In this…

Techies are always chasing the mythical tool that will let them "focus on the work" and avoid tedious distractions like "talking to people." AI tools are only the latest to promise this impossible dream.
But talking to people IS the work. You can complain about it on the internet, or take responsibility and make your life a lot easier.
#LLM

Can Designers Avoid Meetings?
LLMs are not the first tool to promise that they can free us from having to talk to people so we can "focus on the work." But talking to people IS the work.

Não é todos os dias que se fala da OKC em português
Aqui vai o artigo do Público na forma de um PDF, sem paywall
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ega7ZKrVezn_6I4_UrdYBZezpouRJd5f/view?usp=drivesdk
Obrigado por partilharem.

When I find it discouraging that young twenty-somethings often don’t seem to care about these things, it’s good for me to remember that I care a lot now, but I really don’t even remember these giant protests from when I was a young twenty-something.
I do remember talking with people and saying things like “going to war without actual evidence—just GWB saying stuff—is stupid” and being shot down by older folks.
But I really don’t remember most of the political action.

Dare Obasanjo (@carnage4life@mas.to)
Attached: 1 image Gen Z is about to experience the futility of protests that Gen X experienced 22 years ago. The way to create change is voting. Protesting is just slightly above writing mean tweets in influencing U.S. government policy. Slightly.

Die ePetition 180634 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Lebens- und Genussmittel mit dem Titel
Verhinderung der Lebensmittelverschwendung in Produktionsstätten
kann bis zum Donnerstag 24. Juli 2025 01:00 UTC mitgezeichnet werden und lautet
Mit der Petition wird gefordert, die Lebensmittelverschwendung in Produktionsst…

Magneto-cubic and magneto-linear dependence observed in an in-plane anomalous Hall magnet
Ayano Nakamura, Shinichi Nishihaya, Mitsuru Akaki, Motoi Kimata, Kenta Sudo, Yuki Deguchi, Hsiang Lee, Tadashi Yoneda, Masaki Kondo, Hiroaki Ishizuka, Masashi Tokunaga, Masaki Uchida
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21458

Magneto-cubic and magneto-linear dependence observed in an in-plane anomalous Hall magnet
The Hall effect, particularly that arising from in-plane magnetic field, has recently emerged as a sensitive probe of quantum geometric properties in solids. Especially in trigonal systems, in-plane anomalous Hall effect (AHE) can be explicitly induced by nontrivial off-diagonal coupling between the magnetic field and the Hall vector on the principal plane. Here we elucidate multipolar dependence of the off-diagonal coupling in the in-plane AHE, by systematically measuring on the (001) principa…

Beyond QWERTY: A pressure-based text input approach for XR that enables a touch-typing like experience
Fabian R\"ucker, Torben Storch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20741 https…

Beyond QWERTY: A pressure-based text input approach for XR that enables a touch-typing like experience
Text input in extended reality (XR) applications remains inefficient and tedious. Most solutions are derived from the traditional keyboard layout, yet fail to translate its positive characteristics to the spatial digital realm. This limits the productive use of immersive technologies. In this work, we analyze physical keyboard input to identify key characteristics that facilitate its comfort, touch typing and high typing speeds. Building on these findings, we propose a novel pressure- based tex…

Did lunar tides sustain the early Earth's geodynamo?
J\'er\'emie Vidal, David C\'ebron
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19039 https://

Did lunar tides sustain the early Earth's geodynamo?
Geological data show that, early in its history, the Earth had a large-scale magnetic field with an amplitude comparable to that of the present geomagnetic field. However, its origin remains enigmatic and various mechanisms have been proposed to explain the Earth's field over geological time scales. Here, we critically evaluate whether tidal forcing could explain the early Earth's geodynamo, by combining constraints from geophysical models of the Earth-Moon system and predictions from rotating …

Não é todos os dias que se fala da OKC em português
Aqui vai o artigo do Público na forma de um PDF, sem paywall
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ega7ZKrVezn_6I4_UrdYBZezpouRJd5f/view?usp=drivesdk
Obrigado por partilharem.