News Commentary | November 25, 2019
Sonos, a company that makes speakers and sound systems, previously worked with Amazon and Google to embed their digital assistants into some of its speaker models. To use the digital assistants, however, those speakers are reliant on a cloud connection, which opens up privacy concerns for some ... To read more, click here.
News Commentary | April 20, 2020
The chip is reported as an 8‑core ARM processor produced using Samsung's 5 nm process. It is designed to optimize the operation of Google's AI algorithms and improve the performance of Google Assistant for mobile and smart home devices. In‑house chip development enables Google to better integrate ... Not part of subscription
News Commentary | April 12, 2021
Eye‑tracking technology offers insights into a multitude of human behavior aspects. Used in discrete medical applications today, eye tracking is being developed for upcoming automotive and consumer AR/VR products. The most common approach relies on computer vision to detect eye movements. While it ... Not part of subscription
by Jerrold Wang
Apple, Google, and Amazon used human workers to listen to users' voice clips for improving their voice recognition technology, but this allows them to unwittingly access users' private conversations through smartwatches, smartphones, and speakers when the virtual assistant is wrongly activated. Apple and Google have halted the practice, while Amazon offers an opt-out option to users. The long-term solution should be to require users' opt-in approval and disconnect the clips from the user accounts, such as by modifying the recordings before human review. Clients making smart consumer devices should see that voice data will be less available and should seek partners with either novel models that require less data or existing trained models.
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