I'm skeptical of the "wake word" idea now. As nerds, it makes sense to us to do local wake recognition and only upload a request phrase after that. But in rea

I'm skeptical of the "wake word" idea now. As nerds, it makes sense to us to do local wake recognition and only upload a request phrase after that. But in reality, this not the first time[1] we've learned that continuous speech was getting uploaded. Charitably, it could be a mistake, maybe the previous request never terminated and it just kept streaming. But again, not the first time. More likely, my opinion, is there's a mountain of cash on the table in the form of private conversation, and AMZ would be foolish to walk away from it. After you talk about "hardwood floors" in your house, you could expect targeted ads, consumer profiling, variable pricing, and third party sales. Why woudln't they do this? Why else are they pushing home devices so hard? They're front and center on the front AMZ page every time you visit, aren't they? Oh and GOOG too, they just haven't been caught yet. 1. https://www.wired.com/2017/02/murder-case-tests-alexas-devotion-privacy/ https://www.wired.com/2017/02/murder-case-tests-alexas-devot...