Eli5: How does Google ‘listen’ to you? Is there actually a program running in the background on your phone that records your voice and sends it to google?
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I don’t think they do this, but if you’re talking about tracking your conversations for ads and things like that they wouldn’t send your conversations back to a server to process, that would take an enormous amount of data. It’d be much more efficient to just have a background process running that listens for relatively small set of keywords, and when it hears them just send that with some context information back to a server to add to your profile.
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