Re:Amazon Echo Dot
by fluxquanta on Thursday March 03, 2016 @01:41PM
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Hah, it'd be like hiring a personal assistant from a staffing agency who is constantly on the phone with the staffing agency parroting what you say.
That's also not what's happening with Echo. You'd literally have a few seconds of audio being sent to Amazon and then some text (the result of the ASR) being sent to the third party ticket search / reservation system.
There's a difference between the "always on" communication these devices have and communication the user specifically requests.
When I want to make an airline reservation, I'm requesting the device to send the booking information to the airline. I'm not asking it to send a recording to the mothership of everything that happened in my home for the last 5 hours, which a human assistant would never do.