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Is there evidence that the big name home devices like Google Home and Amazon Echo actually collect your speech? I was under the impression it was just a small A
by nostalgk 7y ago
Is there evidence that the big name home devices like Google Home and Amazon Echo actually collect your speech? I was under the impression it was just a small ARM board that uses recognition to execute commands. My mom has a Dot, but I am clueless.
- rootusrootus 7y agoThe device itself has enough processing power to detect the wake word, everything you say after that goes to their datacenter to be processed.
- nostalgk 7y agoInteresting. I guess I was fooled then when I took a cursory look at the specs (months ago), and only really noticed the first part. Definitely won't be buying into the trend myself. Any ethical alternatives out there?
- howard941 7y agohttps://winbuzzer.com/2018/12/20/amazon-accidentally-sent-personal-echo-recordings-to-other-users-xcxwbn/ https://winbuzzer.com/2018/12/20/amazon-accidentally-sent-pe...
- nostalgk 7y agoThanks, somehow never noticed this article. For the record, my parent comment isn't rhetorical or sarcastic, I've just entirely avoided the trend and am not the target market.
- sib 7y agoYes - it's been very clearly communicated since the launch of the Echo in 2014 that the speech goes to the cloud after the wake word is detected (which happens on device).