Amazon device recorded private conversation, sent it out to random contact

Re:Amazon device recorded private conversation, sent it out ... by Xylakant on Thursday May 24, 2018 @12:48PM (#17145851)

There’s a Mozilla project for everything https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/02/how-to-build-your-own-priv... (voice is experimental and I don’t know if it’s on device)

Looks cool, but I haven’t tried. I’m the kind of person that gets up and walks to the light switch.

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Re:Amazon device recorded private conversation, sent it out ... by vedanshbhartia on Thursday May 24, 2018 @01:15PM (#17146148)

There's Mycroft too: https://mycroft.ai/ We have a lot of alternatives but they are unable to get the sort of marketing and hence the attention mainstream devices like Alexa and Google Home do

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Re:Amazon device recorded private conversation, sent it out ... by joshmontgomery on Thursday May 24, 2018 @05:37PM (#17148670)

In fairness ( I'm Mycroft's CEO ) our product isn't on par with Assistant or Alexa....yet. We've had to do a ton of work around wakeword detection, natural language understanding, device management, skills management, user management, credential management and speech synthesis BEFORE we've had a chance to work on the user experience.

That said....we are on track to have a high quality experience when we go to production in Feb 2019 ( Release 19.02 ). As an open source community we'd welcome any help folks have to offer. Contributors don't even need to know how to code, all they need to be able to do is listen to sound samples at https://home.mycroft.ai and tag them as "Hey, Mycroft" or not "Hey, Mycroft"

Thanks to everyone who is helping make Mycroft a reality!

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