Collaborate Disseminate
Smart speakers have proliferated since their initial launch earlier this decade. The devices combine voice recognition and assistant functionality with a foreboding sense that paying corporations for the privilege of having your conversations eavesdropped upon could come back to bite one day. For this reason, [Yihui] is attempting to build …read more
Amazon’s acknowledgment that it saves Alexa voice recordings – even sometimes after consumers manually delete their interaction history – has thrust voice assistant privacy policies into the spotlight once again. Continue reading Amazon Admits Alexa Voice Recordings Saved Indefinitely
According to some folks, smart speakers such as Google Home and Amazon Echo simply make us lazy while needlessly adding electronic complexity to our lives. Thanks to new research, however, the things may someday prevent people from dying of c… Continue reading Smart-speaker tool could prevent cardiac arrest deaths
The Google Home Mini can be a useful home assistant device. It can set reminders, tell you the weather, and even play you music. [Brian] had a few lying around, and decided he wanted to hook one up to a beefier set of speakers. Thus, he installed a headphone jack …read more
A mysterious “media device” from Google has appeared at the FCC, but we have no idea what it is.
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Lenovo’s new Smart Clock is a modern take on the alarm clock with Google Assistant support, voice control, and touch navigation.
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Cruising through the children’s hands-on activity zone at Maker Faire Bay Area, we see kids building a cardboard enclosure for the Chatterbox smart speaker kit. It would be tempting to dismiss the little smiling box as “just for kids” but doing so would overlook something more interesting: an alternative to …read more
Continue reading Chatterbox Voice Assistant Knows To Keep Quiet For Privacy
Google announced a free, ad-supported version of YouTube Music to all users of Google Home and other Google-powered speakers.
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The market researchers at Canalys claim that the smart speaker installed base will top 200 million globally by the end of 2019.
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The Illinois Keep Internet Devices Safe Act would have empowered average people to sue big companies for recording them without consent, but industry association lobbying defanged it. Continue reading Big Tech Lobbying Gutted a Bill That Would Ban Recording You Without Consent