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Re:Alexa: Amazon's Operating System by spdustin on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @02:10PM (#13321124)
No, the processing for the trigger is done locally, no network communication until the trigger is recognized. That's why you can only have one of a couple of trigger words.
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Re:Alexa: Amazon's Operating System by kajecounterhack on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @02:38PM (#13321351)
The same is true of most modern android phones with Google Now AFAIK. E.g Moto X was one of the first phones with a low power dedicated ASIC for wakeup-word recognition to further make it sustainable on mobile devices.
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Re:Alexa: Amazon's Operating System by vlunkr on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @04:53PM (#13322420)
Yeah I read somewhere that it was all sent off, but everything else I've looked at says it's all local.
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