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From the perspective of a user: I believe the idea is nice. But I am concerned about privacy. In this times of deep fakes, authentic voice of someone is a very

From the perspective of a user: I believe the idea is nice. But I am concerned about privacy. In this times of deep fakes, authentic voice of someone is a very valuable resource and it needs protection. Of course, you said you protect the privacy of the users and anonymize the data but I believe I need more information in this regard before I can participate. May be an option to automatically delete the voice data after a set period or the option to see all my saved data, delete my data if I decide to do so. Otherwise, it will leave me with some uneasiness.

jaybhum 3y ago
Yes, you can delete ALL your voice data by going to your account settings in the app, and deleting your account. You have full control of your data. Meanwhile, feel free to create an account and explore the app, even just by listening to other recordings! And only when you feel comfortable sharing your thoughts with your voice, you can participate.
- aggsigme 3y ago
  This is a cool idea, and you seem genuine. One thing I'm not clear about is how you achieve the claimed privacy. You said the user id data is separated from the user voice data and can't be matched. But you also say that if I delete my account it will delete all the voice data. How do you do this unless there is a mapping from the users table to the voice notes table?
  - jaybhum 3y ago
    So when user deletes the app, it sends two separate messages to AWS: one to the Cognito which stores the user ID and email, and one to the Dynamo database that has user data linked to the anonymized ID. The data are deleted independently, and upon receiving the success message from both of them, the account is fully deleted. That way, the user data in Dynamo DB does not have to know what is happening in Cognito.
pzo 3y ago
I have similar feeling. This could be maybe worked around with some local ai model that modify you voice slightly and randomly.

jaybhum 3y ago

Yes, you can delete ALL your voice data by going to your account settings in the app, and deleting your account. You have full control of your data. Meanwhile, feel free to create an account and explore the app, even just by listening to other recordings! And only when you feel comfortable sharing your thoughts with your voice, you can participate.

aggsigme 3y ago
This is a cool idea, and you seem genuine. One thing I'm not clear about is how you achieve the claimed privacy. You said the user id data is separated from the user voice data and can't be matched. But you also say that if I delete my account it will delete all the voice data. How do you do this unless there is a mapping from the users table to the voice notes table?
- jaybhum 3y ago
  So when user deletes the app, it sends two separate messages to AWS: one to the Cognito which stores the user ID and email, and one to the Dynamo database that has user data linked to the anonymized ID. The data are deleted independently, and upon receiving the success message from both of them, the account is fully deleted. That way, the user data in Dynamo DB does not have to know what is happening in Cognito.

pzo 3y ago

I have similar feeling. This could be maybe worked around with some local ai model that modify you voice slightly and randomly.