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Not sure just how seriously this is meant to be taken, but the Echo doesn't monitor anything until you say "Alexa" (and recognition of that is handled in the ha
by blacksmith_tb 11y ago
Not sure just how seriously this is meant to be taken, but the Echo doesn't monitor anything until you say "Alexa" (and recognition of that is handled in the hardware, locally - if you're worried about devices with net access and microphones, you'll need to keep your phone turned off at home, too). It's fair to assume that once you are interacting with it Amazon mines at least some data, however.
- grillvogel 11y ago>but the Echo doesn't monitor anything until you say "Alexa" then how does it know when you say Alexa?
- dbbk 11y agoBecause the code that understands 'Alexa' is hardcoded into the device. Once it hears that word, that's when audio starts getting sent over the Internet to Amazon's servers.