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Cake day: June 19th, 2023

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  • But you see you’re wrong. We know how on device wake words work. I’m sorry, your vice article from 2018 is out of date.

    Edit: I think I get it. You don’t know the difference between someone saying a microphone is always on (hot) for processing a wake word vs saying the microphone is always on (hot) for data collection. It’s two very different concepts. We know how wake words are processed. It’s done on chip in the device. Nothing is being sent across the internet.

    We also have monitored cell phones when using wake words. There’s no network connectivity happening during that processing time. It’s easy to check.

    Of course that doesn’t mean it will never happen in the future or that devices haven’t already been made to do so. We do know consumer cell phones do not appear to be doing this. Again, it would be obvious with suspicious battery drain and network activity.