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> Any device that responds to voice commands must be listening. Always. This is obvious. Processing sound is required, but recording or sending to a server are
by loumf 3y ago
> Any device that responds to voice commands must be listening. Always. This is obvious.
Processing sound is required, but recording or sending to a server are not. I think the latter two is what most would be concerned with.
- courseofaction 3y agoWhy would they not?
- rcxdude 3y agoGenerally such assistants work by continuously listening for a 'wake word', the processing for which happens on device and without recording the audio to disk or sending it to a server. After they hear the wake word, they then start sending the recorded audio to a server to recognise the request (usually after playing some audio cue to let you know they are expecting). The reason for this is twofold: firstly, the obvious privacy concerns. Secondly the cost of streaming that much audio continuously and processing it server-side is very high. If someone were to show evidence that any such products were in fact sending audio back without being triggered by such a wake word (either continuously, triggered by something else covertly, or without giving a cue that it was listening), it would likely be quite a scandal.