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I use them for music and for weather, trivial fact searching, etc. and only in my home office.
I don't usually say anything in my home office that, if it made it to the "outside" world, would be incriminating to me, so I am not worried about that.
However, I have heard horror stories of these types of devices calling 911, etc. on the owners, and other similar oddities.
I use the Google Home Mini[^]  That's what she said!  and it is voice command activated with key word ( I think they all are), so I have to say "Hey Google" before I can give it commands, but how do I know that it is not storing other things since it is always listening for "Hey Google" command?
Anyhow, I voted: Mostly. I may use them only in non-sensitive scenarios.
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Who the f**k cares about crap like that??? 
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A lot of people use such devices and treat them like a family member. 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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Hook up WireShark to your router and see what goes out when you don't use the 'Alexa' keyword.
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xkcd: Listening[^]
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Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I have heard claimed that first time Microsoft made a public demo of their voice recognition software, back in the old DOS days (or at least in a command window - command line input is more suitable for voice recognition than GUI input!), the presenter booted up the machine before the audience. Then one guy in the audience rose up and said in a clear voice "Format c colon", and another one stood up to answer the confirmation question with a "Yes". And it worked.
This little prank may have been arranged by Microsoft themselves.
Or it may be an urban myth.
If it isn't true, it sure is a d*** good lie 
(If anyone can positively confirm that the story is true, please tell us! If you know for sure that it is not, don't tell, but let us have the joy of knowing that it possibly might be true...)
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Member 7989122 wrote: (If anyone can positively confirm that the story is true, please tell us! If you know for sure that it is not, don't tell, but let us have the joy of knowing that it possibly might be true...)
Googled it, seems there where some issues on a Vista release. Otherwise I can't find a reference.
Vista Speech Recognition Goes Awry - Slashdot
A commenter made a similar claim about an IBM release at 1995 COMDEX, again. Nothing to support it.
Hmm, that would be funny especially if it started doing it.
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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It's one thing to say "Hey Siri" or "Ok Google" to your smart phone and ask for tomorrow's weather or other useless things, but one of those speakers at home? NO-GO.
I would never give those devices ANY control over ANYTHING in my home, be it light, doors, alert system, whatever.
This is plain stupid in my oppinion.
IoT is nothing I will touch.
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No worries about Cortana. It never seems to hear me.
Can't get any sense out of Google's effort.
Siri makes me laugh sometimes because it gets everything wrong.
Alexa is switched off most of the time because my wife is scared of it.
My old Nokia N95 still lets me call people by talking to it. That's brilliant!
We're philosophical about power outages here. A.C. come, A.C. go.
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