Watch what you say; the (Samsung) TV is listening
BPC Staff Feb 9, 2015 | 8:57 pm
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89 wordsAll Latest News, Innovation and EntrepreneurshipMany Samsung “SmartTVs” come equipped with voice recognition, which allows you to bark commands at your TV, CNN Money reported. Since the television is always listening for your voice, Samsung has warned its SmartTV customers that every word is being captured and sent over the Internet. Samsung says it needs to send your voice commands to a third party, because that company converts your speech to text. But Samsung also collects your voice commands to perform research and determine whether it needs to make improvements to the feature.