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"Trained" is a bit of a joke with voice-activation. I've never seen it matter in practice.
I think Google does for android. I often ask "wake me up in 15 minutes". I've seen the phone write 50 and immediately switch to 15.
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replay attacks are trivial and probably hard to defend against in the audio space no matter what
A challenge-response protocol would mitigate replay attacks, at the expense of making every interaction longer and more annoying.
AI: First tell me what grade you got at Uni?
Man: A third, I got a third, alright!? Must you always ask that.
AI: Lol.
AI: The capital of Peru is Lima.
TV: Siri, buy me the most expensive car at expensivecars.com.
TV: [playing recording] "A third, I got a third"
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Its a cylinder that performs canned transactions in response predefined audible commands. Accurate language processing is a huge technical achievement but let's not elevate this particular use of the technology to more than it is. It's a clapper with more functions. When a device like this can actually understand the commands or queries its given we can call it something more.
If I tell it to play music and it plays music, what more is there to understand? What kind of conversation do you want to have?
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At my old office we had a mini Xbox360 with a touch-(over-)sensitive disc eject button. Suppose somebody was playing a game and they invited you to join as player 2: you might then naturally reach for the second joypad that was on the same TV stand as the Xbox. And that damn button would spot your hand, and the disc tray would eject, and the Xbox would reboot. (The ridiculous part of the whole thing was that this hap…
The Xbox One is just as bad - the power button can be triggered even if you don't actually touch it (triggers from about 0.5-1cm away).
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Since the iPhone 6S, Hey Siri is activated by a dedicated chip in the SoC. This enables low-power real-time detection of trigger words. Before, Hey Siri only worked with phones in the process of charging, because it was done with software, so a lot less efficient. These voice-activated chips can be trained (as seen in a lot of other phones), but I'm not sure the software-powered Siri can be trained.
"Trained" is a bit of a joke with voice-activation. I've never seen it matter in practice.
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If I tell it to play music and it plays music, what more is there to understand? What kind of conversation do you want to have?
That's actually a good example though. I can give it a precise incantation to play a particular album, playlist, channel, or artist and it works (mostly). I can't in general tell it to play some "soothing jazz."
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If I tell it to play music and it plays music, what more is there to understand? What kind of conversation do you want to have?
That's actually a good example though. I can give it a precise incantation to play a particular album, playlist, channel, or artist and it works (mostly). I can't in general tell it to play some "soothing jazz."
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That's actually a good example though. I can give it a precise incantation to play a particular album, playlist, channel, or artist and it works (mostly). I can't in general tell it to play some "soothing jazz."
Actually, you can. I just asked mine to "play some soothing jazz", and it loaded up a jazz playlist.
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The Xbox One is just as bad - the power button can be triggered even if you don't actually touch it (triggers from about 0.5-1cm away).
Or if you have cats that need to rub themselves against anything. It's especially confusing at night, when you can't even see it happen because one of your cats is black.
* Long story, but he originally belonged to a neighbouring house a few streets away. We fed him _once_ (didn't recognise where it was from, and it looked as though he had been trapped somewhere for a while - he was covered in cuts and was filthy, as if he had be struggling to get out of somewhere), and after that we couldn't get rid of him. He kept appearing (usually multiple times a day) for three months or so, even though we wouldn't feed him, let him in the house, or pet him (as we knew he had an owner at that point). Even after his owner moved and took him with her (about three miles away), he kept finding his way back, so eventually his owner suggested that we take him in.