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by dexter_it 458 days ago
I'd be interested to see the percentage of users who have the "Do Not Send Voice Recordings" feature enabled. My guess is .001% or less
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0cf8612b2e1e 458 days ago
Since only a minority of users want any modicum of privacy, guess it makes sense to remove the option for everybody.

Also ignoring the dark patterns in which big tech will make it annoying/obfuscated/unknown that better privacy options are available.

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Aurornis 458 days ago
It isn't an option for older devices anyway. The hardware for on-device processing was only in some recent models.

I think it's likely that they looked at the numbers and realized they were spending a lot of money putting NPUs on devices and maintaining separate voice parsing models for a very small minority of users.

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walterbell 458 days ago
It's useful to control local Zigbee devices without depending on internet.

Echo Plus is a Zigbee hub with US-origin firmware.

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