Smart TVs Are Really Smart!

[Gut4Tennis]

Smart TVs Are Listening To EVERY Word You Say. 1984!!!

Samsung Smart TV Voice Recognition Privacy Policy Reads Like George Orwell's '1984'

Samsung SmartTV privacy policy, warning users not to discuss personal info in front of their TV.

“You can control your SmartTV, and use many of its features, with voice commands. If you enable Voice Recognition, you can interact with your Smart TV using your voice. To provide you the Voice Recognition feature, some voice commands may be transmitted (along with information about your device, including device identifiers) to a third-party service that converts speech to text or to the extent necessary to provide the Voice Recognition features to you.

In addition, Samsung may collect and your device may capture voice commands and associated texts so that we can provide you with Voice Recognition features and evaluate and improve the features. Please be aware that if your spoken words include personal or other sensitive information, that information will be among the data captured and transmitted to a third party through your use of Voice Recognition.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/201...-1984_n_6642934.html?1423490948&utm_hp_ref=uk

 

[dParis]

Don't activate the voice recognition option.

 

[Starbuckingham]

Will it recognise the sound of the big bang in uranus? Suresh would be interested.

 

[r2473]

Smart TVs Are Listening To EVERY Word You Say. 1984!!!

Samsung Smart TV Voice Recognition Privacy Policy Reads Like George Orwell's '1984'

Samsung SmartTV privacy policy, warning users not to discuss personal info in front of their TV.

“You can control your SmartTV, and use many of its features, with voice commands. If you enable Voice Recognition, you can interact with your Smart TV using your voice. To provide you the Voice Recognition feature, some voice commands may be transmitted (along with information about your device, including device identifiers) to a third-party service that converts speech to text or to the extent necessary to provide the Voice Recognition features to you.

In addition, Samsung may collect and your device may capture voice commands and associated texts so that we can provide you with Voice Recognition features and evaluate and improve the features. Please be aware that if your spoken words include personal or other sensitive information, that information will be among the data captured and transmitted to a third party through your use of Voice Recognition.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/201...-1984_n_6642934.html?1423490948&utm_hp_ref=uk

Hey, TV, get me a ****ing beer.

Just as I suspected, no smarter than my wife.

 

[chrischris]

Will it replace having real friends for some poor loser loners out there ?

 

[MatsPhilander]

Have a Samsung Smart TV but it doesn't have the voice thing. Really cannot comprehend people being that lazy they want to speak to a telly rather than press a button on the remote.

Can remember 30 years ago having to get up, walk across to the Rediffusion telly & press the buttons on the front to change to one of the other three channels available then.

 

[Rock Strongo]

Have a Samsung Smart TV but it doesn't have the voice thing. Really cannot comprehend people being that lazy they want to speak to a telly rather than press a button on the remote.

Can remember 30 years ago having to get up, walk across to the Rediffusion telly & press the buttons on the front to change to one of the other three channels available then.

Heck, I'm only 20 and for several years of my childhood (actually right up until a few years ago when I bought an LCD TV) I had to walk up to my TV to change channels or tune because either the controller was missing or hopelessly unreliable.

Why you need your TV or Kinect listen to you just to turn your appliances on escapes me aswell. You just place your thumb on whatever button you need and depress it using your muscles. Doesn't get any harder than that.

 

[Gut4Tennis]

Have a Samsung Smart TV but it doesn't have the voice thing. Really cannot comprehend people being that lazy they want to speak to a telly rather than press a button on the remote.

Can remember 30 years ago having to get up, walk across to the Rediffusion telly & press the buttons on the front to change to one of the other three channels available then.

Heck, I'm only 20 and for several years of my childhood (actually right up until a few years ago when I bought an LCD TV) I had to walk up to my TV to change channels or tune because either the controller was missing or hopelessly unreliable.

Why you need your TV or Kinect listen to you just to turn your appliances on escapes me aswell. You just place your thumb on whatever button you need and depress it using your muscles. Doesn't get any harder than that.

awwww shucks ... that's about right