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Re:Australian regulator investigates Google data harvesting ... by UncleMeat on Monday May 14, 2018 @12:20PM (#17066753)
Siri listens for a hotword, which is tremendously easier than running general speech detection models all the time.
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Re:Australian regulator investigates Google data harvesting ... by code_duck on Monday May 14, 2018 @03:16PM (#17068531)
Seems like you have to do at least minimal analysis of all sounds to be listening for a hot word.
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