• conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works
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    16 days ago

    It would take a lot of data. On device voice processing is not very advanced. That’s why most voice stuff doesn’t work without a signal.

    • Blueberrydreamer@lemmynsfw.com
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      16 days ago

      That makes sense, but isn’t it assuming they’re processing data on the device? I would expect them to send raw audio back to be processed by Google ad services. Obviously it wouldn’t work without signal either, but that’s hardly a limitation.

      As someone else pointed out, how does the google song recognition work? That’s active without triggering the light indicating audio recording, and is at least processing enough audio data to identify songs.

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        16 days ago

        If they were sending that much audio back, people would see the traffic. You could record it and send it at a different time, but the traffic would exist somewhere. People have looked and failed to find any evidence of such traffic.

        It’s something that could happen on device in the nearish future if there’s not anything now, but it would probably still be hard to hide.

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          16 days ago

          People have looked and failed to find any evidence of such traffic

          Source? I would like to read about that

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            16 days ago

            Sorry, it’s been long enough and I haven’t saved any of the links, and the keywords are polluted as hell with garbage results. I can’t find anything specific.

            • Blueberrydreamer@lemmynsfw.com
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              16 days ago

              It’s almost like they were asking about sources for people looking or something.

              If you’re not going to contribute, why are you wasting people’s time?