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Isn't Siri and Google's 'Ok google' thing basically the same? Everyone in the room has that running all day everywhere they go.
by burger_moon 9y ago
Isn't Siri and Google's 'Ok google' thing basically the same? Everyone in the room has that running all day everywhere they go.
- mikeash 9y agoI bring this up every time someone complains about devices like the Echo. Unless you ban cell phones, you must not be worried too much about having tons of always-on microphones around.
- Spooks 9y agoIf you allow cellphones and don't use a noise generator like rabbler, your meeting isn't secretive enough
- lostboys67 9y agoso do opsec like tony in the sopranos and leave all you mobiles out side the room
- jagermo 9y agoYou mean, where someone can easily get to them to install a sniffer/ copy all content?
- elicash 9y agoIt's a thing that people have noise generators running while they have meetings? Isn't that annoying?
- raisedbyninjas 9y agoI was going to say that modern phones don't have the resources to perform recognition/recording outside of a trigger phrase without an obvious hit to battery life. But then there is the Pixel 2 which can identify a few thousand songs with little performance impact. All of the wired assistants don't even have this issue.
- mikeash 9y agoI use Sleep Cycle for my alarm clock, which uses the microphone to listen to your sleep and wake you up when it's a good time and you're ready for it. My bedside charging cable has been malfunctioning the past few days, so my phone has been running off the battery all night while doing this. Despite this, my battery only drops a small amount between when I turn the alarm on and when I wake up.
- saget 9y agoIf the app was designed correctly it would probably only be listening within a ~1 hour window of when you want to wake up
- mikeash 9y agoThat would be smart if it was just an alarm, but it also presents a full analysis of the entire night’s sleep, and notes and records any snoring it detects.