Sound Ledger

40,000: Number of flights aimed to be reduced by a Dutch government plan (to 460,000 annually, from 500,000), now under appeal, to limit noise at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport 

40: Percent increase estimated of people utilizing voice technology in the next 12 months

3: Current size, in gigabytes, of the largest language model in the excellent speech-to-text app MacWhisper (which I learned about via Om Malik’s newsletter)