I was pointing out that walking around with a voice assistant is not walking around with an open microphone recording everything.
For many applications with the iPhone, the transcription is done locally.
If you have an iPhone, turn on airplane made and switch on dictation mode.
I need to go to the store and get a two by four
I am five foot ten inches tall
You'll note that it does a fairly good form of transcription on device (you can still trick it with some ambiguous homophones).
I will also point out that Apple is using an opt-in process rather than opt-out. The article you linked is from October 29th, 2019. iOS 13.2 was released October 28th. It is possible that the release and saying that it is opt in ( https://support.apple.com/en-us/118392 ) "Privacy settings to control whether or not to help improve Siri and Dictation by allowing Apple to store audio of your Siri and Dictation interactions" is what triggered the article (the change prompted the article rather than the article prompting the change).
If you opt in to Improve Siri and Dictation, the audio of your interactions with Siri and Dictation may be stored on Siri servers and reviewed by Apple employees to develop and improve Siri, Dictation, and natural language processing functionality in Apple products and services. For general text Dictation performed on device (for example, composing messages and notes, but not dictating in a search box), transcripts and audio are not shared with Apple by default, but are shared if you opt in to Improve Siri and Dictation. In addition, other Siri Data, such as computer-generated transcriptions of your requests, names of your contacts, apps installed on your devices, and location, is also used to improve Siri.
This is fundamentally different than having an open microphone during a conversation that is transcribing the entire conversation and then using that to summarize it.
For many applications with the iPhone, the transcription is done locally.
If you have an iPhone, turn on airplane made and switch on dictation mode.
You'll note that it does a fairly good form of transcription on device (you can still trick it with some ambiguous homophones).I will also point out that Apple is using an opt-in process rather than opt-out. The article you linked is from October 29th, 2019. iOS 13.2 was released October 28th. It is possible that the release and saying that it is opt in ( https://support.apple.com/en-us/118392 ) "Privacy settings to control whether or not to help improve Siri and Dictation by allowing Apple to store audio of your Siri and Dictation interactions" is what triggered the article (the change prompted the article rather than the article prompting the change).
https://foundation.mozilla.org/es/privacynotincluded/article...
And from the about security settings:
This is fundamentally different than having an open microphone during a conversation that is transcribing the entire conversation and then using that to summarize it.