Was I hallucinating? Totally OT, perhaps relevant

[Colin Holgate]

I was at Google for meetings last week, some of which was with the Google Home and also Assistant teams. They have the same need as Siri, and I imagine that they solve the problem in the same way. For Google, they are always listening for “ok google”, and Apple are listening for “hey Siri”. It’s only a two second buffer though, that is constantly overwriting itself. If you could steal someone’s device and freeze all electrons in it so you could scrape for sound data, you probably would only get the sound of you picking the person’s pocket.

If the trigger words are detected, the next bit of sound is uploaded to be analyzed. That happens for all devices within hearing, and online all of the recordings are considered at the same time. The reply is usually sent to the device that was closest to the user at the time. The recording is kept in your history, so you can go back and listen to it to figure out why it might have been misinterpreted. This is the page you can go to listen to yourself:

https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity?product=29



> On Nov 14, 2017, at 10:38 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> If Apple was doing data collection via Siri always on and feeding the data to Amazon, that would be a huge news story. Americans would FREAK OUT! 
> 
> Bob S
> 
> 
>> On Nov 10, 2017, at 19:18 , Kay C Lan via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I have an iPhone with Siri usually turned Off, but
>> after I recently upgraded to iOS11 I hadn't picked up that Siri had
>> been turned On - it's now back Off.
>> 
>> I'd like to think it was coincidence... but how many of you have EVER
>> seen an online advert for a mattress specifically for station wagons?
>