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I'm not sure where you're getting that this requires transmitting all the microphone data to the cloud. All of this could in theory be done on the device withou
by rtkwe 7y ago
I'm not sure where you're getting that this requires transmitting all the microphone data to the cloud. All of this could in theory be done on the device without cloud processing at all.
- TeMPOraL 7y agoIt could be, but it won't. The article mentions mainstream "smart speakers", none of which does it, and whose producers have every incentive to not do it.
- X6S1x6Okd1st 7y agoYet the photos from the article clearly show it running on a laptop.
- swsieber 7y ago> To make things easy for new parents, the team made a system that could run on a smart speaker that replicates the hardware in an Amazon Echo. > "Smart speakers are becoming more and more prevalent, and these devices already have the ability to play white noise," said co-author Shyam Gollakota, an associate professor in the UW's Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering and the director of the UW computing for health group. "If we could use this white noise feature as a contactless way to monitor infants' hand and leg movements, breathing and crying, then the smart speaker becomes a device that can do it all, which is really exciting." They are clearly aiming to get this running on smart speakers.