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It's not just over-stating it, it's demonstrably wrong. All you need to disprove it is to ask someone else's Echo to answer a question. What I presume it's act
by lucozade 9y ago
It's not just over-stating it, it's demonstrably wrong. All you need to disprove it is to ask someone else's Echo to answer a question.
What I presume it's actually doing is responding to the keyword, Alexa in this case, and somehow correlating the rest of the question to the voice that said the keyword. I don't happen to know what criteria it uses to do that but it's clearly doing that or something a lot like it.
That's much less dystopian than voiceprinting the family.
- hprotagonist 9y agoThat's basically exactly what happens, except without the voice correlation part. Alexa should be easily tripped up by multi-speaker babble: speaker A says the trigger, speaker B starts a command, speaker A interrupts, and Alexa hears A+B+A. It's certainly how _i_ solved the problem when I wrote a SR system ...