Re:Amazon Echo Flex: Microphone mute button appears to be re...
by sib on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @04:16PM
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True. And in the early (internal) alpha days, false positives for wake word detection were quite high. So we felt the pain from eating our own dogwood; even though we spent huge amount of science / engineering resources on reducing those false positives, we knew it would never get to zero while maintaining acceptable true positive rates.
Particularly with software auto-updates, a software mute is simply untrustworthy.