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Re:Project Alias hacks Amazon Echo and Google Home to protec... by reaperducer on Monday January 14, 2019 @01:07PM (#18904914)
There is no way Amazon or Google would waste millions of dollars running the state of the art speech recognition algorithms on your house's background noise.

Unless they wanted to listen for a dog barking, then add "pet food buyer" to your profile data.

There are a lot of very easy use cases for monitoring background noise.

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