There has been a couple of studies on the topic that observed network traffic and never were able to found anything. So despite the persistence of the rumors, so far this remains a conspiracy theory.
Speech to text isn't difficult to do and within the the capabilities of Meta. I even wrote a basic proof of concept on what it might look like: https://github.com/smuzani/soundrecorder
It's not too hard to transcribe text into a few kb, or summarize them further on the client, and then upload that together with the rest of the data.
I'd be very interested in seeing those studies and whether they match up.
It's not too hard to transcribe text into a few kb, or summarize them further on the client, and then upload that together with the rest of the data.
I'd be very interested in seeing those studies and whether they match up.