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> Note that your phone also defaults to having its microphone on 24/7 There's a difference between it being on vs having a task that's actively listening for t
by cr4nberry 4y ago
> Note that your phone also defaults to having its microphone on 24/7
There's a difference between it being on vs having a task that's actively listening for trigger words.
Idk if Google/Apple put some kind of latent thing in their phone OS that's constantly listening for advertising or intelligence purposes. I'm assuming this is what you're talking about, since the microphone permission flag for applications on the phone OS can be easily disabled
- jefftk 4y agoThe reason I brought up Siri and Ok Google is that they're doing the same thing as Alexa with their always-on microphones: they're trying to detect a "wake word" ("Alexa", "Hey Siri", "Ok Google"), and once they do they take the recent audio and parse it for commands.