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Amazon Is Using Your Conversations With Alexa to Train AI (gizmodo.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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I'm never putting one of these in my home.

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[–] 6 points 2 years ago (4 children)

They are listening to you even when you're not talking to alexa, did you know that

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I'd love a citation on this, outside of wakeword usage (a local device waiting for "Alexa* to begin recording).

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Source: their ass.

    Alexa devices use an onboard DSP to detect the wakeword and maintain a rolling audio buffer. On a positive match, the DSP wakes the main CPU which combines the saved buffer and any following speech and uploads it to the cloud where Alexa lives so she can try to figure out what you meant.

    No audio is uploaded without being triggered by a wakeword. Also, the "mute" button physically cuts power to the mic, and the indicator LED is hardwired to the power rail as a failsafe indicator.

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