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The entire point of the Echo and similar devices is that it's always listening.
by JetSpiegel 10y ago
The entire point of the Echo and similar devices is that it's always listening.
- Karunamon 10y agoThe device is always listening (unless you mute the mic), but that doesn't mean it's always sending a stream to Amazon. The device has to continuously process audio to listen for the wake word (upon which it does start sending everything to amazon) and a few seconds of the buffer before that so you can just bark out commands rather than waiting for it to acknowledge you.
- FungalRaincloud 10y agoListening locally for a trigger word != listening, recording and transmitting. The point of the echo is to have an on-demand voice channel to an artificially intelligent assistant.