After Amazon, Google, Apple, Facebook is exploded, the conversation between the user and the voice assistant may be After human eavesdropping, this time it was Microsoft’s turn to take the initiative.
Recently Microsoft update privacy statement that will The supplier’s staff transcribes the recordings of these voice services by Skype and voice assistant Cortana,
Microsoft said that the collection of users’ voice data is mainly to improve the accuracy of the artificial intelligence system and improve product services.
There is a foreign media explosive material These people who conduct voice reviews for Microsoft have an hourly salary of $12-14 and need to transcribe 200 audio clips per hour.
Basically, the tech giants we know are acknowledging that they have manually transcribed and reviewed conversations between users and voice assistants.
In April of this year, Bloomberg News showed that Amazon employs thousands of employees around the world who will hear certain voice requests from Echo smart speakers and be responsible for annotating these transcribed voices to improve Alexa. Recognition of human language.
On July 11th, Google confirmed that they hired people around the world to listen to a small number of recordings, and said that part of the collected audio was used to develop a speech recognition system to better adapt to various languages and enhance users. Experience.
In late July, Apple supplier employees broke the news to the Guardian. When they rate and improve the Siri voice assistant, they will hear the user voice recorded by Siri. These recordings include drug trafficking and medical treatment. Susceptible content such as conversations and intimacy.
In early August, Facebook was revealed to let vendors transcribe voice on Messenger.
Last week, Apple, Google, Amazon, and Facebook all said they had Pause artificially to the user language