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I'm not sure why it's unreasonable for customers to have assumed this is like every other product: they developed it with employees and voluteers before shipping.

After all, the voice recognition in my Prius doesn't send recordings of my "call mom and dad mobile" back to Toyota and it certainly doesn't send random snippets of conversations my wife and I have to low paid contractors around the world.



> After all, the voice recognition in my Prius doesn't send recordings of my "call mom and dad mobile" back to Toyota and it certainly doesn't send random snippets of conversations my wife and I have to low paid contractors around the world.

How do you know? Is it not internet-connected?


I don’t know about the Prius, but there are plenty of non-connected devices that support voice control.

I have a Garmin GPS from like 8 years ago that did voice commands, it had zero transmit functionality.




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