How do phones constantly listen for voice commands like ‘Hey Siri’ or ‘Ok Google’ without draining the battery quickly?

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How do phones constantly listen for voice commands like ‘Hey Siri’ or ‘Ok Google’ without draining the battery quickly?

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The more “passive” things can be designed to consume very little power. The main power hogs are intensive CPU, intensive graphics and use of wireless networks. Monitoring a microphone (passive) and running low intensity sound processing consumes very little power relative to the batteries on a modern phone.

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