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Alexa does not send data unless you say “Alexa”. This happens at a hardware level. This is confirmed by hardware schematics and by security researchers who have
by dangero 7y ago
Alexa does not send data unless you say “Alexa”. This happens at a hardware level. This is confirmed by hardware schematics and by security researchers who have sifted through every piece of data that leaves the device.
What you are saying isn’t true. It cannot be.
- majewsky 7y agoHow reliable is the keyword detection? Last week we had this story about Apple where Siri heard the word "Siri" out of random noise like creaking furniture.
- DarwinMailApp 7y agoMy point exactly. Just last night myself and my girlfriend were talking and Alexa decided to activate itself without us saying Alexa first.
- heavenlyblue 7y agoAlexa rarely, but quite regularly activates from my TV in the same room.
- maximente 7y agothe device can't magically detect the world Alexa - there is some lossy process of translating incoming noise into a vector that has some probability of being the hotword, and above this probability the device enables. a more accurate thing to say would be: Alexa does not send data unless, in the course of listening for the hotword Alexa, it interprets some noise or utterance to be close enough to Alexa to start sending data