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Wake word-enabled AI seems to have become the creepy device in our home and our office. If it is really listening to everything we say, is it blurring our privacy lines?
The problems that have risen in the past seem to have been related to accidental activation of the speech recognizer.
Users can enroll their voice and their own custom wake word or passphrase, restricting unauthorized users from accessing the voice user interface.
Even if an unauthorized person learns the custom wake word or passphrase, the voice biometrics technology will recognize that it’s not the enrolled user speaking and not authenticate them.
The wake word component works with Alexa and Google Assistant devices. The AI can also support multiple wake words, such as “Okay Google” “Alexa,” “Hey Cortana,” “Hey Siri,” and “Xiaodu, Xiaodu.”
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This allows device makers to create new products with a user-friendly voice interface that works with more than one digital assistant technology.
Todd Mozer, CEO of Sensory said: “In ideal conditions, an always-listening wake word recognizer should only wake the voice UI when it hears the wake word, and never false fire”.
With this technology I can finally stop whispering when I am near my assistant and put it to much better use.
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