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Google is testing smart speakers feature that would remove wake word requirement

4 pointsby thgover 4 years ago

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munawwarover 4 years ago
This sounds scary. AFAIK wake word activates the advanced speech recognition. Wake word speech recognizer is a more &quot;primitive&quot; speech recognition model, which can&#x27;t understand anything other than the words it was trained for (like &quot;Hey Google&quot; or &quot;Alexa&quot;).<p>So, now, removing it means the advanced speech recognition runs all the time? Which is always &#x27;on&#x27; and can understand everything spoken? Sounds like potential privacy invasion.