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Re:Reddit User confirms Siri/Cortana transactions are recorded by frik on Tuesday February 24, 2015 @01:16PM (#9102417)
Apple Siri uses Nuance speech recognition technology; afaik Siri run on their server at launch.

It seems they outsourced tasks to another company to improve the speech recognition. The classification task that the Reddit user does can be used by Nuance to improve their data.

As another Reddit user mentioned that after doing the job for a while you will start recognizing speakers: http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/2wzmmr/everythin...

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Re:Reddit User confirms Siri/Cortana transactions are recorded by billyhoffman on Tuesday February 24, 2015 @01:34PM (#9102558)
There are hundreds of millions of iOS and Android devices out there. If someone is starting to recognize voices, it supports a common sense reaction that a subset of voice commands are being used for QA/QC purposes to improve accuracy.
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Re:Reddit User confirms Siri/Cortana transactions are recorded by frik on Tuesday February 24, 2015 @01:49PM (#9102662)
That's definitely the case. Plus there are some heavy users while many users try out Siri/GoogleNow/Cortana just a few times and never come back.
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