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Help Net Security PrivacyMic: A smart home system that doesn’t record speech Microphones are perhaps the most common electronic sensor in the world, with an estimated 320 million listening for our commands in the world’s smart speakers. The trouble is that they’re capable of hearing everything else, too. But now, a team of University of Michigan researchers has developed a system that can inform a smart home – or listen for the signal that would turn on a smart speaker – without eaves...

New technology developed at U-M could prevent smart speakers from listening to our conversations.

PrivacyMic, the Smart Speaker That Doesnt Eavesdrop UM researchers developed a system that enables devices to understand whats happening in your home respond without listening to you. A prototype PrivacyMic. (📷: University of Michigan / YouTube) A team of University of Michigan researchers has developed a prototype system dedicated to privacy: a smart speaker that doesnt pick up or record audible sound but still informs a smart home or listens for the signal that would turn on a smart sp...

‘PrivacyMic’: For a smart speaker that doesn’t eavesdrop Microphones are perhaps the most common electronic sensor in the world, with an estimated 320 million listening for our commands in the world’s smart speakers. The trouble is that they’re capable of hearing everything else, too. But now, a team of University of Michigan researchers has developed a system that can inform a smart home—or listen for the signal that would turn on a smart speaker—without eavesdropping on audible ...

PrivacyMic can capture information inside the home without recording conversations Shane McGlaun - Jun 9, 2021, 7:51am CDT Engineers at the University of Michigan have created a new device called PrivacyMic that could usher in an era of smart speakers that can capture information inside the home without recording speech. The challenge with smart speakers for many people today is that the microphones are constantly listening for their activation word, so they hear everything t...

Copy Researchers at the University of Michigan have proposed a way to have your privacy cake and eat your home automation too. Theyve found a means of using a voice-activated smart speaker system without it having to listen to everything you say – and no, its not "pressing a button." "There are a lot of situations where we want our home automation system or our smart speaker to understand whats going on in our home, but we dont necessarily want it listening to our conversations," said the apt...

Microphones are perhaps the most common electronic sensor in the world, with an estimated 320 million listening for our commands in the world’s smart speakers. The trouble is that they’re capable of hearing everything else, too. But now, a team of University of Michigan researchers has developed a system that can inform a smart home—or listen for the signal that would turn on a smart speaker—without eavesdropping on audible sound. The key to the device, called PrivacyMic, is ultrasonic ...