How about 2 Google Homes: The $100 Privacy version and the $30 Opt-in Testing version. That way some people get their privacy and I get Chicken Little to subsidize my cheaper IoT products. =)

The problem with this is that "Chicken Little" is probably not an adventurous person, but rather a poor person. This makes privacy another privilege that can be bought. This devolves into another way to exploit poorer people.

> Train the software with previously human transcribed audio (like TV/audiobooks/etc)

They've very likely already done this.

Virtually every single DVD/BluRay ever produced has closed captioning. For the english language, that must be over 100,000 hours.

I suppose it's no coincidence that this article is written about the Flemish community... there may not be as much closed caption options there.