Comment by Narkov
What makes you think the raw audio stream needs to be sent anywhere. Modern phones are capable of doing keyword extraction on-device.
What makes you think the raw audio stream needs to be sent anywhere. Modern phones are capable of doing keyword extraction on-device.
The Chrome Browser can transcribe audio into text, with what I consider good accuracy. It's well out of the realm of a conspiracy theory when it's been demonstrable for a couple decades.
You need to know what keywords to listen for before discarding the audio data. An advertising giant might know but a government doesn't.