Google makes you say “Hey Google” three times so they can train their seperaten hey Google detection model. So if you wanna believe the big cooperations, yes, it’s totally safe cuz it’s different code.
Real answer: they are always listening, but they are supposed to use a separate bit of code to listen for activation keywords that can run locally, so they aren’t just constantly streaming audio data to someone’s servers. In reality, there are plenty of false positives and you never know if it’s listening or not.
Alexa Siri, Google and Cortana are always listening
The devs claim they only listen when they hear their names, but how can they hear their names if they’re not always listening?
Google makes you say “Hey Google” three times so they can train their seperaten hey Google detection model. So if you wanna believe the big cooperations, yes, it’s totally safe cuz it’s different code.
It’s just a voice-activated placebo button. They’re always listening
Yup
Real answer: they are always listening, but they are supposed to use a separate bit of code to listen for activation keywords that can run locally, so they aren’t just constantly streaming audio data to someone’s servers. In reality, there are plenty of false positives and you never know if it’s listening or not.
No, that’s bullshit, they’re always listening for information about what ads to target to you.
Do you have a source? That’s a bold claim and is something that would be easily detectable with a signal sniffer if it were true.