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Re:Amazon Sends 1,700 Alexa Voice Recordings to a Random Person by mcny on Thursday December 20, 2018 @03:01PM (#18728583)
> What I don't understand is why they have to store voice recordings instead of deleting them once they understand the vocal command. There could be a number of reasons and I don't like any of them.

Not that I have any insider information but a while back someone made a post on reddit about what baffles them about their work and they had a job where they basically listened to very short voice clips and saw something on the screen and they had to decide whether it was the right word on the screen or not.

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Re:Amazon Sends 1,700 Alexa Voice Recordings to a Random Person by jetrink on Thursday December 20, 2018 @03:27PM (#18728798)
There are tons of phone systems that use speech recognition and warn you that you are being recorded for quality assurance purposes. I would assume those recordings come from that type of system. Google and Amazon have been clear that humans will not be listening to the recordings.
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Re:Amazon Sends 1,700 Alexa Voice Recordings to a Random Person by bena on Thursday December 20, 2018 @03:15PM (#18728685)
Are you trying to say these home assistants are basically mechanical Turks?
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Re:Amazon Sends 1,700 Alexa Voice Recordings to a Random Person by andrei_says_ on Thursday December 20, 2018 @03:26PM (#18728786)
Most likely the human verification is not in real time but for quality improvements after the facts.

In case you weren’t joking.

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