On: Apple Is Manufacturing a Siri Speaker

[conductr]

I agree. It's weird as f* having every word spoke in my home recorded. I guess they say they're not recording, but you know they are or will soon.

[sib → conductr]

They are not recording (other than when the wake word has been detected, correctly or incorrectly.)

[jeffbax → sib]

I thought Alexa recorded all the time, maintaining a buffer so that it seemed to respond faster once it caught you saying the magic words

[sib → jeffbax]

The device is maintaining a short (<1 sec) buffer at all times. The device is Echo; Alexa is the cloud-side service, which is definitely not getting the audio until the wake-word is spotted and then streaming begins (backing up to the beginning of the buffer).

[grillvogel → conductr]

they are recording, there was a murder case recently that used the alexa voice recordings as evidence

[hbosch → grillvogel]

Incorrect. Police asked Amazon for a murder suspect's Alexa history, and Amazon initially refused until the suspect/customer gave permission. It is yet to be proven if anything was recorded without the wakeword.

[eric_the_read → grillvogel]

All we know is that the recordings were requested by the prosecution; we have no idea what, if anything, is included in them. In particular, we do NOT know if anything other than the wake word, followed by a few seconds of query, is included. Everything else we've learned, including Amazon's own statements on what is recorded and transmitted, suggests that nothing else is included.

[linkregister → grillvogel]

Is that how it happened?