[tempguy9999]

Don't have an alexa, perhaps.

But if you believe alexa did that and you still haven't murdered it with fire, I guess you never will.

(Edit: as pointed out below, it was an alexa but not his own so my criticism is undeserved)

[DarwinMailApp]

It's not my Alexa I'm talking about!

I have no reason to buy one. I made a list of benefits and it really wasn't strong enough!

[koolba]

I’d love a FOSS one that operated totally locally.

[spacehome]

I think it exists already, but I make no claims as to the quality.

https://www.home-assistant.io/components/snips/

[Nextgrid]

It’s crazy that ~10 years ago I tried a pirated copy of Dragon NaturallySpeaking on a 700mHz single-core machine with 384MB of RAM and it was capable of recognising my speech locally but now they want us to believe that local speech recognition is impossible despite having 10x the processing power.

[tempguy9999]

I still have a working copy of dragon, and it needs a lot of training. I presume alexas are supposed to work out of the box.

[Nextgrid]

Training is a worthwhile trade off if the upside is complete privacy.

[en-us]

https://mycroft.ai/

[chucksmash]

Is this documented anywhere?

I thought with Alexa we were still in the "in some dystopian future they're going to use that data for ads" phase. If we've moved to that already, I'd like to read about it.

[thinkingemote]

> It's not my Alexa I'm talking about!

The information about the ads are probably also not related to your data but to whoever's Alexa it is (and the connections to that user).