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.
  • wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
    6110·
    6 months ago

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

    • xor@infosec.pubEnglish
      978·
      6 months ago

      after looking into it:
      it’s not and it never was.
      a) it’s open source, so nobody’s putting that shit in there without getting caught
      b) it had an opt-in error reporting feature that would send data back… that was the entire thing…

      • drislands@lemmy.worldEnglish
        264·
        6 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?

      • books@lemmy.worldEnglish
        71·
        6 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.

        • xor@infosec.pubEnglish
          6·
          6 months ago

          people are definitely going through the code on a project as popular as audacity…
          less well known stuff is much less scrutinized, of course

        • aidan@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          6 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.

        • lemmeee@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          6 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.

    • InfiniWheel@lemmy.oneEnglish
      74·
      6 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.