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Re:Google speakers are listening to more than just voice com... by MiroF on Saturday August 08, 2020 @12:54PM (#24093092)
What about transcribing all the audio you get and then sending it as a chunk of stuff every time the Hone is activated. Don't think you could catch that.
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Re:Google speakers are listening to more than just voice com... by secabeen on Sunday August 09, 2020 @12:36PM (#24100759)
That would require a lot more computational power than is currently available in an Echo device. It's possible that Amazon could sneak a custom ASIC into the device to do something like this, but it would add quite a bit to the device's Bill of Materials, and would still probably be noticed by the iFixit crowd.
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