[ad_1] Facebook will use its Viewpoints market research app, through which it has paid users to take surveys. Qualifying users will be asked to record the phrase “Hey Portal” followed by the first name of a friend in their friend list. If you participate, you’ll have to repeat the statement twice and do this with […]
Category: voice recording
Microsoft says humans will still transcribe Cortana and Skype audio
[ad_1] The company amended its privacy policy and other pages to make it clear human workers are listening to recorded conversations and commands to improve the services. “We realized, based on questions raised recently, that we could do a better job specifying that humans sometimes review this content,” a Microsoft spokesperson told Motherboard, which spotted […]
Amazon considered letting Alexa listen to you without a wake word
[ad_1] In practice, the patent would allow Alexa to “look backward” at recent things said aloud prior to hearing its name. For example, if a user said something like, “What’s the weather going to be like today, Alexa?” the device would hear the trigger word “Alexa” and quickly go back over the prior phrase to […]