With the rising availability of computation in everyday devices, there has been a corresponding increase in the appetite for voice as the primary interface. To accomodate this desire it is necessary for us to have high quality libraries for being able to process and generate audio data that can make sense of human speech. To facilitate research and industry applications for speech data Mirco Ravanelli and Peter Plantinga are building SpeechBrain. In this episode they explain how it works under the hood, the projects that they are using it for, and how you can get started with it today. Do you want to try out some of the tools and applications that you heard about on Podcast.__init__?

The new film Sorry to Bother You has been widely praised by critics, but writer Evan Narcisse is frustrated that it's not getting the credit it deserves as a visionary work of science fiction. "The headline of my review on io9 was'Sorry to Bother You Is the Most Surreal, Important SciFi Movie in Years,'" Narcisse says in Episode 323 of the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy podcast. "And I actually believe that. I believed it when I wrote it in March, I believe it now, and I believe it's going to be that way for years to come." Geek's Guide to the Galaxy host David Barr Kirtley agrees that Sorry to Bother You derives much of its power from its wild science fiction imagery, a point that the film's director, Boots Riley, has made in interviews.