Link to the survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe3ClP3sHiEQZmwwPMiJ3OzUO586yInWIME076unOdV9kG5-Q/viewform
I was invited to partake upon opening the software. I thought Lemmy might get a kick out of this.
I can’t believe they have the audacity to do this. The audacity!
I abandoned the software after it got bought out and installed spyware years ago. There is a fork called Tenacity I use sometimes.
I’ve been using Tenacity for a while now. Audacity has become problematic. But honestly, I don’t do too much audio editing. Just some clipping and noise removal.
I was just about to ask. Thank you so much.
Thanks for the recommendation. I have used Audacity for over a decade now.
That survey sounds more like they’re thinking about asking an MCP API to it. That is, an AI assistant could be connected to send calls to perform tasks through Audacity without needing OpenClaw-like full computer access.
One use case I can imagine is, an indie game developer has a recording they want to use but it’s noisy and they’re bad at sound editing so they ask an AI to do something about it. The AI sees an exposed Audacity MCP server and goes to town.
I guess it could work?
Could, yeah, but never should. Hope that hypothetical indie game developer gets banned from stores.
I answered this question with Other: You should be ashamed for even asking this question.
None of these are a definitive “No I don’t use AI”. What a shit survey
Because AI boosters convinced people that AI centrism is moderate AI usage, and you want to be a centrist, because both Nick Fuentes and Hasan Piker are bad (yes, this is the example they’re using), and everyone needs to find the golden middle road, or else!
Of course you use AI and you have been using it before the hype even started.
I noticed that too. lol fuck them.
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The audacity…
Couldn’t help myself, apologies
Seems like an indication they wanna know what the users want to do but it’d be nice to be able to say “yes” to the non generative uses only
I don’t see the problem. There are many ways that it could be useful, particularly with editing files.
It’s an art thing. No machines generating in place of humans a key ethic.
“Hey Alexa please lower the volume of this file because I’m too retarded to use the basic functions of this app”
Whats next? AI integration into MS paint because people are too stupid to draw a rectangle?
I have bad news for you…
that depends.
Introducing Audacity Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Platinum tiers!
One of the ideas of a market research survey like these is to check if there is market demand for a given addition to a product. It does not mean they want to add it, i means they want to add it if user want it added.
Seems like they are asking how loudly they should announce the addition of AI to their software. If the survey comes back positive they’ll shout Audio Assistant Support from the rooftops, if nobody wants it they’ll put it in anyway, but it will be a buried feature in the bottom of an obscure update note ‘AAS added to collect data to enhance user workflow and customize UX’.
