In response to a commercial that hijacks Google Assistant (aka the Google Home device), Google has updated their systems to prevent that single recording from triggering the device:
Burger King made waves today after it released a TV ad that purposely triggered the Google Assistant. The ad ends with a person saying "OK Google, what is the Whopper burger?"'—a statement designed to trigger any Google Assistant devices like Android phones and Google Home to read aloud a description of the hamburger's ingredients. Google apparently wasn't happy with a third-party hijacking its voice command system to advertise fast food, and has issued a server-side update to specifically disable Burger King's recording.
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Neither Amazon's Alexa nor Google Assistant can identify who is speaking to it based on a profile. This functionality could be added in the future with a hardware or cloud update.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Friday April 14 2017, @03:08PM
That these spy services lack any voice identification which should be trivial in comparison to transcribing the words in the voice
That's pretty damn presumptuous. Any halfway-complex software product is never going to be as easy to write as it looks, never mind voice recognition.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"