You guys are right about that. But first to be clear. This is NOT our HQ, but an office not working on our core- platform. People sitting in this office can look out of the window to see who's standing at the door before opening the door.
Also, please note, this was just a fun small project for us. Making an image with a camera and posting to Slack would be better. We had much fun making this without putting a lot effort in it, that was for now the point.
We are aware of all the security issues and are not using this in production at our main office.
Yeah, I feel like this needs to grab a screenshot from a security camera first, or perhaps ask the person why they are there and auto-transcribe the message to Slack with their request.
I think they would definitely also want to send ~5 seconds of the plain audio. Freely available speech to text probably wouldn't recognize local business names. But either way it's pretty inconvenient to ring a doorbell and wait ~30 seconds. You never realize how valuable a receptionist is until you don't have one.
That's the first thing I wondered. Seems like it defeats the purpose of the landlords system of verifying you actually want to open the door for the person there.
I suspect they'd be better off switching to a RFID / nfc swipe system