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Not sure if Siri and Alexa (and Google Now) send every recording to a data center - the .NET speech recognition libraries ship with Windows, so all audio data s
by stephengillie 10y ago
Not sure if Siri and Alexa (and Google Now) send every recording to a data center - the .NET speech recognition libraries ship with Windows, so all audio data stays local to your PC, afaik. I'd expect Cortana leverages these libraries as well, instead of sending all data to a remote server.
You can build basic functionality into a speech bot in Powershell ("PowerShiri, what time is it?" "PowerShiri, what is the weather?") as a weekend project: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11663029 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11663029
- SyneRyder 10y agoAt least with Google Now, you can go into your Google Account and listen to recordings of everything you've ever asked via voice search: https://myactivity.google.com/item?product=29 https://myactivity.google.com/item?product=29 (If the Product 29 parameter doesn't work, click on "Item View" in the left and filter by "Voice & Audio".)
- y_u_no_rust 10y agoGoogle defiantly is you can listen to your past queries online and I know the police request alexa voice recordings from time to time
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- seanmcdirmid 10y agoCortana sends it off to a server like everyone else. Those libraries are probably not Microsoft's latest and greatest. Modern speech models are quite big, not so big that you couldn't load it on your desktop, but big enough that you would notice. Couple that wih the fact that search/or a service is going to happen on a server anyways, client side processing doesn't make sense beyond a few functions.
- dx034 10y agoAlexa can only recognize the keywords. Which is also why you can only choose between 3, because the device isn't able to detect anything else. After that, the command will be analyzed in Amazon's datacenter. I don't know of any smartphone or similar device that would interpret voice commands locally.