Police seek Amazon Echo data in murder case

Re:Police seek Amazon Echo data in murder case by Marazan on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @01:16PM (#13264798)

And that software in that era ha to be painstakibgly trained for each individual voice.

Echo "just works", and is clearly doing it by punting to the cloud.

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Re:Police seek Amazon Echo data in murder case by Fuzzwah on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @02:18PM (#13265400)

Only the wake word needs to be processed locally.

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Re:Police seek Amazon Echo data in murder case by TazeTSchnitzel on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @07:17PM (#13267459)

Which the iPhone has no problem with. “Hey Siri” works even when you have no Internet connection.

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Re:Police seek Amazon Echo data in murder case by Marazan on Wednesday December 28, 2016 @03:18AM (#13269203)

Having the data locally necessary to process the wake word is slightly more practical to havig the language corpus necessary to process all English language in hundreds of accents.

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