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Echo only transmits the audio command to Amazon after you invoke the wake word "Alexa." It's "always-listening" but not "always-recording/transmitting." You can
by pwython 11y ago
Echo only transmits the audio command to Amazon after you invoke the wake word "Alexa." It's "always-listening" but not "always-recording/transmitting." You can easily verify this by looking at your network activity.
- VincentEvans 11y ago... and there's absolutely no way it could ever be changed without your knowledge or consent to do anything other than described! Right?
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- lsaferite 11y agoCouldn't the same be said about the phone in your pocket as well?
- VincentEvans 11y agoIt could, yes. Perhaps everyone could be a little more suspicious of phones as well.
- daviross 11y agoIt seems to be some sort of not-quite-hardware thing where they download a neural net, based on what I remember hearing about the implementation and that it takes ~10min and flashes a lot of warnings when you switch from "Alexa" to "Amazon" as the available watchwords. Not that this is completely secure, of course, but it does suggest it'd be non-trivial, at least.