#Seabrook #nuclear plant faces ongoing challenge of managing concrete degradation

by Angeljean Chiaramida, July 12, 2023

"A 2023 report shows concrete degradation has expanded from seven to 10 structures at the Seabrook plant.

"Discovered and reported by NextEra’s personnel in 2009, #ASR is a slow-developing type of degradation that can occur in some #concrete when moisture is present. Found most often in dams and bridges, ASR manifests as micro-cracking, staining, expansion and deformation of concrete.

"So far, the #NRC’s repeated inspections determined ASR in Seabrook Station’s structures poses no immediate threat to public safety."

https://www.seacoastonline.com/story/news/local/2023/07/12/seabrook-nuke-plant-safety-report-concrete-degradation-still-a-challenge/70402016007/

#NuclearPlants #NewHampshire #SeacoastNH #NoEvacuationPossibleInSummer

RT @Romagialloross4: #CalciomercatoRoma, dall'#Inghilterra: giallorossi su #Fred ma il #Fulham è in vantaggio

#ASRoma #ASR #Calciomercato…

@cryptgoat #ASR #SpeechRecognition #SpeechInput #AndroidAccessibility

Regulators outline #Seabrook Nuclear Station 2022 safety record

By Ross Ketschke, June 27, 2023

SEABROOK, N.H. —

"Federal regulators have released their annual safety report for #SeabrookNuclearPowerStation.

"However, an issue first brought to light more than a decade ago is still being closely watched by regulators.

"Alkali silica reaction, or #ASR, is a form of gelling in the plant's concrete.

"Retrofitted supports have been installed in some areas to compensate for cracking.

"'So as the concrete expands, it can create tresses in the building,' Daun said. 'So right now, they are monitoring it.'

"Joanna Hammond has long opposed the nuclear power station on the Seacoast.

"'I think they're doing the best they can. I don't think it's enough,' Hammond said.

"She said her concerns about a potential disaster were only made worse last summer when a false alarm was triggered over loudspeakers at #HamptonBeach, creating a temporary panic that something at the plant had gone wrong."

#NoNukes #Nuclear #WaterIsLife #AkalaiSilicaReaction

https://www.wmur.com/article/seabrook-nuclear-station-2022-safety-record-nh/44364567

#istanbul #asr #bosporus

#istanbul #asr #bosporus

Bark is a versatile audio generation model that supports multi-language, music, voice cloning, and speaker prompts audio generation.
https://www.kdnuggets.com/2023/05/bark-ultimate-audio-generation-model.html

#ASR #AI #transcription

ICYMI: Do you work with #voice or #speech #data?

You might be a #linguist, or an #ML #engineer, doing things like data specifications, filtering or pre-processing or training #ASR, #STT or #TTS models, or you might work in #fairness or #bias evaluation.

If so, I’d love your help to understand current #dataset #documentation practices, and what we can do to make them better as part of my #PhD #research

The #survey takes 10-20 minutes to complete, and you can opt in to win one of 3 gift cards valued at $AUD 50 each

Research Protocol 2021/427 approved by #ANU Human Research Ethics Committee

https://anu.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cSFODa5osYtm96e

Do you work with #voice or #speech #data? You might contribute data, write data specifications for collection, perform filtering or pre-processing, train #ASR or #TTS models, or design or perform evaluations on #ML speech models.

If so, I’d love your help to understand current #dataset #documentation practices, and what we can do to make them better as part of my #PhD #research

The #survey takes 10-20 minutes to complete, and you can opt in to win one of 3 gift cards valued at $AUD 50 each

Research Protocol 2021/427 approved by #ANU Human Research Ethics Committee

https://anu.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cSFODa5osYtm96e

Do you work with #voice or #speech #data? You might contribute data, write data specifications for collection, perform filtering or pre-processing, train #ASR or #TTS models, or design or perform evaluations on #ML speech models.

If so, I’d love your help to understand current #dataset #documentation practices, and what we can do to make them better as part of my #PhD #research

The #survey takes 10-20 minutes to complete, and you can opt in to win one of 3 gift cards valued at $AUD 50 each.

Research Protocol 2021/427 approved by #ANU Human Research Ethics Committee

https://anu.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cSFODa5osYtm96e

At 6 cents per 10 minutes, you can transcribe your life for $8.64 per day.

From #openai, the company behind #ChatGPT, the Whisper API can be applied to more practical use cases like: accessibility, telemedicine, voice assistants, etc...

#nlp #ai #asr

https://medium.com/sopmac-labs/whisper-api-pricing-and-use-cases-6b05ef655015

HIRING: Manager, Big Data Engineering / United States https://ai-jobs.net/J46080/ #AI #MachineLearning #DataJobs #AIcareers #MLjobs #bigdata #DataScience #AIjobs #hiringnow #UnitedStates #Agile #Airflow #Amplitude #Architecture #ASR #BigData #Datamanagement #Datapipelines #ELT

HIRING: 2023 Fall Applied Science Internship - Natural Language Processing and Speech Technologies - United States / Seattle, Washington, USA https://ai-jobs.net/J45959/ #AI #MachineLearning #DataJobs #MLjobs #bigdata #DataScience #AIjobs #AIcareers #hiringnow #Seattle #USA #ASR

Noch etwas, das sich in #Chemnitz super machen würde. #StadtratC #secondlive #asr #recycling #Wertstoffe

https://www.mdr.de/nachrichten/sachsen/leipzig/umwelt-recycling-secondlife-kaufhaus-stadtreinigung-100.html

Using a neural sequence tagger that learns how to correct an ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) hypothesis word by word and a corrector module in: “Tag and correct: high precision post-editing approach to speech recognition errors correction” by Tomasz Ziętkiewicz. Proceedings of the 17th Conference on Computer Science and Intelligence Systems; ACSIS, Vol. 30, pages 939–942 (2022).
#ASR #errorcorrection #NLP
Open Access: https://tinyurl.com/3er48z4n

Using a neural sequence tagger that learns how to correct an ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) hypothesis word by word and a corrector module in: “Tag and correct: high precision post-editing approach to speech recognition errors correction” by Tomasz Ziętkiewicz. Proceedings of the 17th Conference on Computer Science and Intelligence Systems; ACSIS, Vol. 30, pages 939–942 (2022).

#ASR #errorcorrection #NLP
Open Access: https://lnkd.in/dmvsz9nq

ღ♥ Sara&Seth: Closer ♥ღ https://www.wacoca.com/videos/1662530/global-beauties/

#2009 #51 #alex #Alexander #ALIEN #AlwaysASRandASR #AnnaSophia #Area #asr #ASRandASR #behind #Disney #Escape #Ludwig #Mountain #movie #race #Robb #scenes #THE #to #TRIBUTE #UFO #witch #アナソフィア・ロブ

Uses in #Academia :

I am beyond impressed with how #ChatGPT assisted me this afternoon to get #Whisper running on my Mac.

I have some 20+ hours of potato quality interview recordings for a book project to transcribe. First trials with open Whisper services looked promising, but I didn't want to sign up with a commercial service. So I decided to try and run it on my own machine.

There is a nice jupyter tutorial on Github, posted by lablab.ai – but it is for windows, I haven't updated python since 2.7, nor written anything significant for more than five years. And I've actually never used jupyter. Sounds bad, right?

Well ChatGPT walked me through it all step by step, reminded me of trivial concepts that I had long forgotten, helped me downgrade to python 3.10 when 3.11 turned out to be unsupported, made sure my pips and paths got untangled, wrote a timing command for me... It took two hours ... but I know I would not have been able to solve this at all otherwise, and gone with the commercial option instead.

That we have a computer program that can help with this level of tutoring for beginner students is an absolute game changer.

Now my CPU is happily churning away, spitting out an hour's worth of transcripts (In amazing quality I must say) each ten minutes, and my sanity is safe. (For now anyway ...)

🙂

#ASR #AutomaticSpeechRecognition #HigherEducation

@BronwynHemsley

This is a fascinating article on the increasing use of #subtitles, by Claudia Forsberg for ABC #Ballarat - the way that sound is designed for movies intended for cinema means that it doesn't play back optimally on mobile devices or streaming services - and this is one factor driving the adoption of #ClosedCaptioning or #Subtitles.

But, these #Subtitles are often inaccurate or mis-transcribed. They use #ASR technology - and this is another case for having good #voice #data #voicedata

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-12/subtitles-popular-among-general-population-change-tv-film/101956758

𝗠𝗶𝗹𝗷𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗔𝗲𝗴𝗼𝗻 𝗻𝗮 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗸𝗼𝗼𝗽 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝗮𝗮𝗻 𝗔𝗦𝗥

Verzekeraar Aegon heeft afgelopen jaar een miljardenverlies geleden vanwege de verkoop van de Nederlandse verzekeringsactiviteiten aan branchegenoot ASR.

https://www.nu.nl/economie/6250493/miljardenverlies-aegon-na-verkoop-activiteiten-aan-asr.html #nieuws #NUnl #Aegon #ASR #verzekeraar