Hey Alexa, Do You Know Who I Am? – DTNS 3508
Daily Tech News Show
Tom Merritt
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2019
⏱️ 35 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Bloomberg revealed that Amazon has staff members who “review” recordings from Amazon Voice Services in order to improve responses. This raises a host of questions especially around privacy and anonymity. How can users be sure there voice assistants aren’t listening in to their conversations?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Justin Robert Young.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | A tech demo shows off the usual tech things. |
| 0:03.7 | Then I'm going to jump to a link using the usual tech devices. |
| 0:07.0 | We have a pointing device called a mouse. |
| 0:09.0 | Doing the usual tech productivity tasks. |
| 0:11.4 | Now we're connected audio. You can see my work, you can point at it, and I can see |
| 0:15.7 | your face and we can talk. Except it's 1968 and it's going to set the computing agenda for the |
| 0:20.5 | next half century, then almost immediately be ignored. |
| 0:24.4 | The mother of all demos on NOAA Little More. |
| 0:27.6 | Get it wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:29.2 | Tired of ads barging into your favorite news podcasts, good news. Good news. |
| 0:36.2 | Ad-free listening on Amazon music is included with your prime membership. |
| 0:40.7 | Just head to Amazon.co. UK slash ad free news to catch upon the latest |
| 0:45.3 | episodes without the ads. Enjoy thousands of 8-cost shows ad free for prime subscribers. |
| 0:49.3 | Some shows may have ads. |
| 0:51.3 | This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber. |
| 1:01.0 | So you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's. |
| 1:05.0 | Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. |
| 1:10.0 | Ed dewald has supported independent Bob. |
| 1:13.0 | Ed DeWold has supported independent tech news directly for five years. |
| 1:17.0 | Be like Ed and become a D.T. |
| 1:20.0 | member at Patreon.com slash DTNS. |
| 1:27.0 | This is the Daily Tech News for Thursday, April 11th, 2019 in Los Angeles, |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Tom Merritt, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Tom Merritt and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.