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Re:Police seek Amazon Echo data in murder case by ben174 on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @05:07PM (#13266613)
The 'Alexa' voice recognition is done on the client, not on the server. Once the trigger word has been spoken, the audio data begins streaming to the server.
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Re:Police seek Amazon Echo data in murder case by cma on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @11:48PM (#13268464)
They carefully worded it so that while it is true it only starts transmitting when there is a query, it doesn't stop transmitting afterwards. It could continue recording and sending to the server for the rest of the day, not just the query (just kidding.. I hope).
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