Voice assistants have only been in our lives for a few years. While we’re generally familiar with them from our phones, they’re everywhere in almost every corner of the world, from smart home appliances to cars. And each has its own ‘magic word’ there is.

“Hey Siri” “Ok Google” or Alexa… wakes up your sleeping assistant and lets him listen to you. Okay, but if these voice assistants aren’t listening to us all the time – which they would be – then how come they hear when we call? That’s our question, now let’s move on to the answer.

By the way, your assistants listen to you 24/7… But no need to panic.

What we need to distinguish here is the difference between listening and recording and processing, sending to the database. All voice assistants the “wake word” called the “wake word.” He is constantly listening to you to hear. That’s here.

But in this listening process, they are in a kind of sleep state and they are just waiting for that word to pay attention and record.

Sometimes we are in a state between sleeping and waking. We hear voices, but our brain begins to sleep. The sounds we hear mean nothing to us, we attach no meaning to them. But if our mother calls us at that moment: “What happened?” we can sober up in a panic. We can actually compare the situation of voice assistants until they hear the wake words.

After hearing their name, they wake up and start serving you by observing the command you say, sending it to the database and processing it.

So Siri, Although he hears the sounds in the environment until you call him, he doesn’t really listen.. In that state, the only sound programmed to detect is the “magic word” you call it.

Larger “eavesdropping” scandals have surfaced in the past involving voice assistants

After being ‘awakened’ by the voice assistants that work with the support of artificial intelligence, every given command is recorded, transferred to the database, processed and applied. So actually The main ‘rest’ problem occurs after you give the command and wake your assistant.

Some news on this subject in recent years, data recorded by Alexa and Google Assistant, He revealed that he was listened to by Amazon and Google employees. Make a statement after the news companies confirmed the situation. However, they indicated that only a small proportion of the audio recordings were listened to. for example Google said it was only 0.02%. Amazon, on the other hand, talked about a price at this level again.

As a reason to listen, they cited the enhancement of artificial intelligence efforts to process data and deliver better results. The fact that artificial intelligence does not develop by itself, but with the information that comes from people, needs the sentences we use, especially in improving itself in language, and so able to deliver more consistent and realistic results ‘like a human’ part is correct.

In fact, in our artificial intelligence video above, we asked this topic of a Google employee, software engineer, and data scientist Merve Noyan, and she said that artificial intelligence how to talk like a human We have answers about the process.

However, for this development process, listening to people’s voice recordings by other people working in the companies was on the agenda and created a controversy, Google, Apple and Amazon issued a statement. suspends “human review” from user records explained.

So what happened as a result, are our data and audio recordings safe?

As regular users, it is normal for us to experience such discomfort. Not a day goes by that giant companies don’t experience data breaches… These data breaches put many people’s data at risk again and again. To rest or to record our footprint on the Internet; This means that data could also leak one day.

If this is the case, it’s not surprising that our minds get fuzzy when companies make statements like this. But most of all States have made great strides in this area in recent years. and critical decisions have been made in the field of privacy and protection of personal data. Technology giants are also cornered on many counts now it is more difficult for them to use our data.

At this point, as users, we can be a conscious Internet and technology user. Apps we download stop and think a little more while she cracks the permitsavoiding sharing our data with untrusted sources, reviewing all the permissions we have for the devices and apps from giants like Google and Apple…