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Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28 (arstechnica.com)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

This isn't at all surprising or really alarming to me as read. Yeah, you can't process locally, but I'm surprised you could at all before. I don't believe you've ever been able to with Google.

What I'm more concerned about is how long until it's always on recording - if it's not already.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Google's speakers have had local voice processing for basic commands for years now. Things like toggling power on lights or changing TV volume. They're also expanding that locally processed control into then being run through the Matter standard so the whole chain is done locally. I have personally verified the local processing on my own network traffic.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

"ohhh, our wake word detector is a little too sensitive, but don't mind it!"