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Re:Amazon Says It Has Over 10k Employees Working on Alexa, Echo by grkvlt on Monday January 07, 2019 @10:01AM (#18845631)
And the wake word detection is done offline, as can be easily proven by disconnecting your internet and saying 'Alexa report this conversation to the NSA' - she will wake up, but then blink red due to lack of network connectivity.
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Re:Amazon Says It Has Over 10k Employees Working on Alexa, Echo by brokenmachine on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @10:01PM (#18861924)
Minor correction but it could still do the wake word detection locally, then fail with the red light because the "report this conversation to the NSA" part could not be sent.
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