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Home / News / Science News / Here's how tech giants handle data captured by voice assistants
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    Here's how tech giants handle data captured by voice assistants

    Shubham Sharma
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    Shubham Sharma
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    Last updated on Mar 19, 2020, 04:00 pm
    Here's how tech giants handle data captured by voice assistants
  • From phones to speakers, everything is turning smart thanks to the power of voice recognition and artificial intelligence.

    Most tech giants, including Google and Apple, offer AI-powered voice assistants to help users automate day-to-day activities.

    But, here's the thing, the same companies also fetch our voice recordings (what we say to these assistants) to improve their products.

    Let's see how they handle this data.

  • In this article
    Amazon annotates recordings, gets them reviewed Apple also gets recordings reviewed It may use recordings for years How Google treats Assistant data Samsung, Microsoft's data handling process is not clear Samsung's data goes to a third party service
  • Amazon

    Amazon annotates recordings, gets them reviewed

    Amazon annotates recordings, gets them reviewed
  • Speaking to VentureBeat, an Amazon spokesperson confirmed they annotate a small number of recordings to improve Alexa's speech recognition and make the assistant better at understanding/answering queries.

    The company gets the recordings reviewed by contractors for feature development but emphasizes that all of that happens in 'high confidentiality' with strict safeguards in place and without revealing personally-identifying information (only first name, device serial number).

  • Apple

    Apple also gets recordings reviewed

    Apple also gets recordings reviewed
  • Apple also gets a small number of Siri recordings reviewed by graders.

    The data is encrypted and anonymized with random identifiers, which allows the graders to rate the quality of Siri's response and mark them with labels contributing to the assistant's development.

    The labeled recordings are fed into Apple's recognition system, which ultimately ensures quality assurance and helps Siri better understand the user's voice.

  • Information

    It may use recordings for years

  • Apple says "voice recordings are saved for a six-month period so that the recognition system can utilize them to better understand user's voice." However, it notes that a small subset of this data, without identifiers, may be used for improving developing Siri beyond six months.

  • Google

    How Google treats Assistant data

    How Google treats Assistant data
  • A Google spokesperson told VentureBeat it employs "a wide range of techniques to protect user privacy" while transcribing Google Assistant data for training its speech recognition system.

    The representative emphasized that the transcription process is automated and the analyzed audio data isn't associated with any personal information.

    And, if the company chooses to use a third-party reviewer, only text data is shared.

  • Microsoft

    Samsung, Microsoft's data handling process is not clear

    Samsung, Microsoft's data handling process is not clear
  • As Microsoft's privacy page notes, the Redmond giant collects voice interactions with Cortana to enhance the voice assistant's ability to recognize individual speech patterns and respond.

    However, the page doesn't detail how the company protects/anonymizes this data and if it is labeled by employees or third-party reviewers for development purposes.

    Same is the case for Samsung which collects data from its Bixby voice assistant.

  • Information

    Samsung's data goes to a third party service

  • Notably, some of the voice data collected by Samsung may go to an unspecified third party service that provides speech recognition service. It is not exactly clear how the service in question stores and handles this data.

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