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Yeah, they are privacy-oriented, don’t send any data to the Internet and all that jazz

I'm not a dev myself but have dabbled on codecademy before, but i'm willing to take it step by step to learn this way if it proves to offer actual privacy.

I love the idea of having a home voice assistant, not a home eavesdropper

Mostly a lurker here but thought I’d post for some advice. About 2 days back I noticed my Echo kept waking up randomly to volume spikes from conversation between my wife and I before we headed to work. I figured it could be a faulty microphone but then it sorted itself out.

Around 8pm as I was playing some light R&B and it would wake up randomly again (it’s in the living room). It really got to me when it had began playing my phone messages. I switched it off immediately. I’m guessing this is a terrible case of voice squatting.

I had literally bought this about less than a month back, and I can’t put my finger down if this is just a mic problem. I read about the case of a family’s conversation that was recorded and sent to a stranger and i’m starting to think that my device is recording more than what I bargained for.

Are there any ways I can test for this?

I went about to search for a more secure voice assistant and came across Snips in this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17826373. Seems to be a ‘private by design’, open source, decentralized voice assistant app. I really like what they are proposing with decentralized data generation campaigns. It looks like they are placing incentive models to their program? I’m looking to obtain their maker kit next week.

Does anyone have experience with Snips and could advise whether it's worth looking into?