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Re:The Alexa feature "Do Not Send Voice Recordings" you enab... by LMYahooTFY on Monday March 17, 2025 @10:10AM (#43388800)
Doesn't it have to listen to everything locally for a command though? I wonder if only commands are keywords.
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Re:The Alexa feature "Do Not Send Voice Recordings" you enab... by Aurornis on Monday March 17, 2025 @11:10AM (#43389390)
The devices are trained to trigger on wake words or phrases.

It’s much easier to run an on-device model to match a very specific phrase than to do speech to text of the entire language.

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Re:The Alexa feature "Do Not Send Voice Recordings" you enab... by empressplay on Monday March 17, 2025 @10:19AM (#43388894)
The 'wake' (eg 'Alexa') trigger match is very fuzzy (which is why other words can sometimes set it off) and there's no analysis beyond looking for that particular trigger
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Re:The Alexa feature "Do Not Send Voice Recordings" you enab... by uoaei on Monday March 17, 2025 @11:00AM (#43389275)
The first point is obviously true, the second point is just an assumption you're making and trying to dress up as fact.

Can't imagine why anyone would want to do that, unless maybe they work for Amazon in a capacity related to this data?

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