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Re:Project Alias hacks Amazon Echo and Google Home to protec... by aylmao on Monday January 14, 2019 @03:03PM (#18905966)
> It’s very unlikely because Amazon and Google pay for false positives, so they have a strong incentive to develop really good trigger word detection.

There's a feature in my Pixel to show what song is playing --like in the real world-- on the lock screen. A kind of always-on Shazam.

They don't mind paying for always on.

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Re:Project Alias hacks Amazon Echo and Google Home to protec... by parineum on Monday January 14, 2019 @03:07PM (#18906003)
"Now Playing" is an offline feature

https://venturebeat.com/2017/10/19/how-googles-pixel-2-now-p...

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Re:Project Alias hacks Amazon Echo and Google Home to protec... by aylmao on Monday January 14, 2019 @03:13PM (#18906042)
Go figure, I stand corrected.
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Re:Project Alias hacks Amazon Echo and Google Home to protec... by CraftThatBlock on Monday January 14, 2019 @03:07PM (#18906002)
That's fully on-device though, it keeps a database of the top songs fingerprints and doesn't use the network to recognize songs
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