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It may not be designed to "listen around the room explicitly", but my phone makes a decent speaker phone, so it still has that capability. And to be honest, I'd
by Johnny555 9y ago
It may not be designed to "listen around the room explicitly", but my phone makes a decent speaker phone, so it still has that capability. And to be honest, I'd be less concerned with what my Echo hears in my livingroom compared with what my phone hears all day long.
The Echo has pretty decent privacy settings (only listens when you say the "wake word", etc).
- rconti 9y agoI don't disagree with phone vs stationary speaker in your house, but the "wake word" issue is precisely what the article deals with.
- Johnny555 9y agoThe article is talking about patents filed that may or may not ever end up in products, not current technology. But any wider use of audio processing to listen for keywords besides the wake word apply equally well to a cell phone. So again, the cell phone is at least as big a concern as an Echo, if not bigger since many people are rarely outside of arms-reach of their phone.