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Not the OP, but .. my smartphone explicitly has NO hotwords that it listens to as far as I can tell. I opt out of this Google stuff as best as I can. So for me
by darklajid 9y ago
Not the OP, but .. my smartphone explicitly has NO hotwords that it listens to as far as I can tell. I opt out of this Google stuff as best as I can.
So for me the answer would be that - while my smartphone can certainly listen to things (as every thing with a microphone can. Who covered all the microphones in their laptops?) - a smartphone offers these things as optional features.
For Google Home and Alexa etc.: The 'listen all the time' (for hotwords at least..) is the single use of these devices. And as soon as you buy into this stuff you might as well allow the cloud storage of your recordings for 'better recognition'.
A smartphone could do the same. But it has a lot of value without doing any of that.
- kybernetikos 9y agoIf you use voice with your smartphone you'll probably find some items on this page https://history.google.com/history/audio https://history.google.com/history/audio
- TeMPOraL 9y agoI did. Curiously, the only "false positives" activations are relatively recent ones (from the last 6 months), while stuff ranging from 6 months to 2+ years ago is all correct activations. I.e. it seems either my current phone vendor or Google messed something up.
- philbarr 9y agoI did... "Said: set alarm for 6:30 in the morning" "Said: set alarm for 7" "Said: set alarm for 7:30" "Said: set alarm for 7:45"
- darklajid 9y agoAs expected, this is empty for me. Glad for the link though.
- sigi45 9y agoA hardware chip with a ring buffer and hardware keyword detection is something i feel much better than any microphone in any other device which is purely controlled by software.