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by traverseda 1038 days ago
Couldn't you do the same with tv shows and ads?
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At least on iOS, not without hacking the operating system. Siri’s ability to listen for a wakeword without an microphone indicator requires privileges that normal apps don’t get. On Android, as far as I can tell, the same is true, except that some phones ship with preinstalled third-party apps which can then get extra privileges.
It runs on a specific coprocessor, even.