Posted on 02/08/2015 2:43:25 PM PST by Enlightened1
Only low-techs will be free.
The irony is delicious. The same people who are upset over samsung “smart” tv’s listening to their conversations ever so willingly let google monitor their whereabouts (location, maps), their friends (contact list), their future appointments and whereabouts (calendar) and preferences (internet searches). But OMG Samsung is listening on the TV.
Cue Yakov Smirnoff !
Why would they pass it to the feds? And why would the feds want to hear it? They pass it to the software that turns it into text and sends it back to the TV. I don’t like voice activation, I talk to myself and the cats too much, weird things could happen.
Like Comcast/NBC, they may just be wanting to stay on the right side of the new internet regulations. Just share everything with the Obama nanny state and the Hillary granny state and they will be rewarded.
Voice recognition is awesome for movies and TV because they turn it into dialog. In practice though it’s a slow error prone way to interact with things.
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On an Apple iPhone or iPad, you have to invoke Siri to have it listen and interpret your voice. It is not listening 24/7 as Samsung's smartTV is apparently listening. Siri only listens when YOU decide you need a specific piece of information and then responds to the question you ask, not to amorphous questions you merely voice while musing in front of the phone. That is not the same thing at all.
There was a post not too long ago on FreeRepublic that indicated that Android phone conversations are being listened to by Google. A freeper commented that he asked his wife what she wanted him to pick up from Wendy's on his way home for lunch. She told him. Not two minutes later a pop-up appeared on his Android phone's screen with a Wendy's Coupon for that very same item. Do you believe in coincidences? I do not. Scary.
Uh, Sunken? Several articles have come out on this in the past couple of days and the Samsung TV is indeed listening to everything spoken in its presence, sending the voice to remote servers for interpretation to see if the words are commands the TV needs to use for control purposes. However, EVERYTHING spoken in the presence of the TV IS indeed sent to the servers for interpretation. After it leaves your home, who knows what is done with it, is it archived, combed for subversive content, available to authorities for warrantless tapping, etc. This is NOT tinfoillery when they ARE doing it.
This would be entirely different if the TV was listening for a trigger phrase such as "HEY idiot box!" or "Listen Up Samsung!" before sending the next ten or twenty seconds of spoken sound to the servers. . . but they opted for blanket sending of everything. That means that everything is parsed so who knows what other key phrases trigger other actions.
Voice recognition algorithms have improved to the point that software to do voice recognition no longer needs to learn individuals' voice differentials as it did in the past. It can handle dialects, lists, quirks of pronunciation, etc. Once it has the correct language set, there is generally no problem.
You misunderstand. . . the TV is not smart enough nor does it have enough storage or computing capacity to handle voice recognition on its own. The voices heard are sent to a third party server that has the comparative data bank capacity and processing power to handle voice recognition and send the appropriate response back to the set. One could not download enough data or capacity to the set.
And you are correct, if it is electronic, it certainly could be initiated remotely without your knowledge. Paging Winston Smith. . .
That's an Interociter from "This Island Earth", a Science Fiction Film. A better example would be this, from George Orwell's "1984"
where the TV not only listened to you, it also watched you, 24/7.
That is a much more sensible implementation of any voice command. . . invoke it's attention with a button push. . . or an on device pass phrase the device is capable of parsing before the server is connected to interpret more complex instructions or requests similar to the way it is handled by Apple with Siri or Microsoft with Cortana.
Sorry, I misinterpreted your comment. . .
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> Sorry, I misinterpreted your comment. . .
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As usual, nothing you have written here is true.
All is needed is for the Extortion-Care MBS Traffickers to expand and get right onto this, “for health, protection, well-being, for the children.”
Fahrenheit 451, checkmate.
Everything I wrote is true. . . What do you have a problem with? Did a Freeper have that experience? He wrote about it. Did Google listen to his Android phone conversation? I don't believe in coincidences. Perhaps the Freeper did not tell the truth; that is a possibility. Everything I wrote about how Siri operates is absolutely true. Ergo, you are blowing smoke, attacking me with ad hominem attacks.
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