Then again, voice assistants often do things that they are not supposed to do. Last year in the US, where one in five adults own a home voice assistant, Alexa had a 70% US market share, compared with the Google Assistant’s 24%. In the real world, voice recognition didn’t become commonplace until Apple launched its phone-based voice assistant, Siri, in 2011. The dystopian implications of voice assistants are appearing in science fiction, including the Spike Jonze movie Her, Black Mirror and Years and Years. It’s scary to contemplate, but conceivable.”Today, voice assistants are not the most pressing threat to privacy only because they are optional.

Source: The Guardian October 09, 2019 05:02 UTC