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I can't recommend highly enough that everyone at least turn on the audible sound when their assistants are listening. At a minimum you should know the kinds of
by sailfast 8y ago
I can't recommend highly enough that everyone at least turn on the audible sound when their assistants are listening. At a minimum you should know the kinds of things that end up triggering the device. There's a really wide area of detection and it's interesting to see where that is.
I would also recommending changing your default word at a minimum. Then again, I might also recommend ditching the device entirely but I happen to have one in my kitchen that I like OK sometimes.
- jackhack 8y agobut "Hey Spybot-Listening-To-Every-Conversation-In-This-Household-And-Building-A-Transcript-For-The-NSA" doesn't roll off the tongue the same way.
- TeMPOraL 8y ago"Hey, NSA snitch"? "Hello Big Brother?"
- crowbahr 8y agoCome now, on a tech and hacking website of all places we should all be better informed than this. There is a voice activation only chip tied directly into the lights that only listens for commands. Once the activation is heard it sends it off to the servers to get processed etc. With everyone scrutinizing the web traffic around them trying to prove NSA/Google spying with them we'd definitely have found something by now. So it's probably just yours that is sending off to the NSA. I'd send it back to them for repairs, see if they don't give you a free home mini in compensation!
- 0xCMP 8y agoI can't find the article, but there was a post where someone turned on the Audible Alert of when it was listening and it began listening for a lot of times. They also said they found a lot of recordings in their Google History that really shouldn't have been there. Here's another article about the history: https://qz.com/526545/googles-been-quietly-recording-your-voice-heres-how-to-listen-to-and-delete-the-archive/ https://qz.com/526545/googles-been-quietly-recording-your-vo...
- mynameisvlad 8y agoAre you talking about the Google Home Minis? Because that was a hardware defect with its capacitive sensors that caused them to completely remove the feature: https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/10/11/16462572/google-home-mini-permanently-remove-top-touch-after-recording-issue https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/10/11/16462572/...
- 0xCMP 8y agoI think this was what I was thinking about.
- astronautjones 8y agohttps://gizmodo.com/the-house-that-spied-on-me-1822429852 https://gizmodo.com/the-house-that-spied-on-me-1822429852
- mkirklions 8y agoI want to get rid of my alexa, but my wife uses it as a kitchen timer. We literally dont use it for anything else. Might get one of those philips light sets since our living room is weird... Tbh, id rather not use alexa..
- toast0 8y agoThe clock / timer functions of Alexa/Google Home are super useful, but nothing else seems compelling to me. Someone could clearly make an offline device that did voice recognition clock and timer, but does anyone?
- chatmasta 8y agoOr you could spend $3 and get a kitchen timer that you can slap to start, and beeps when it’s done!
- Normal_gaussian 8y agoAlexa has named timers, which means you can time multiple things (a common occurrence in cookery). It is also voice activated, which means it can be done when your hands are full (another common occurrence in cookery).
- LinuxBender 8y agoPerhaps you could connect it to foot peddles, commonly used by guitarists that have their hands full.
- gus_massa 8y agoIt looks like nice product request that someone here can make with knowledge in the area. Perhaps a kickstarter.
- toast0 8y agoSetting the timer takes a lot of steps and usually wants clean hands.
- konschubert 8y ago> I can't recommend highly enough that everyone at least turn on the audible sound when their assistants are listening. How do I do that for Google home?
- scotth 8y agoThe Google Home app. I remember it being under accessibility.