>I don't see how it's different than a smartphone. Everyone carries with them a little microphone and GPS now. Who cares about using voice recognition in the ho

>I don't see how it's different than a smartphone. Everyone carries with them a little microphone and GPS now. Who cares about using voice recognition in the home? "You already have the flu, why worry about getting gastroenteritis?" >And the real voice recognition should be turned off 99% of the time. It should just passively listen for a keyword before using any cloud service. On tools like OP's link, or Jasper, etc. you have the source and you can verify that it's actually not sending out data permanently. With the Echo, you're just hoping Amazon didn't do exactly that. You could watch the network activity, but that would just tell you that some data is sent back, sometimes.