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Alexa Is in Millions of Households—and Amazon Is Losing Billions (www.wsj.com)

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[–] sudo@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

We would easily be able to tell if an Alexa was constantly streaming audio data by monitoring its network traffic. It'd be just a wasteful inefficient implementation to stream everything 24/7. Makes much more sense to only start recording when it hears certain keywords that it can recognize locally beyond "Alexa".

[–] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

Who says it's constantly streamed? Who says it's not stored or transcribed then sent off in a small package?