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"Hackers can abuse Amazon Alexa and Google Home smart assistants to eavesdrop on user conversations without users' knowledge, or trick users into handing over sensitive information."

"Researchers in Japan and at the University of Michigan said Monday that they had found a way to take over Google Home, Amazon's Alexa or Apple's Siri devices from hundreds of feet away by shining laser pointers, and even flashlights, at the devices' microphones."

L'assistant vocal est-il considéré comme un membre de la famille? Plusieurs recherches sont conduites pour étudier les relations entre les enfants et les assistants vocaux.

"Patients can tell Alexa to ask for specific help, such as pain medication or assistance using the bathroom. The skill will then send their request to their nurse via a mobile device and a tablet at the nurse's station. For patients unable to find or reach the standard call button, a voice-activated system can be a real boon. And, because the specifics of the request are shared, the skill is more efficient than a call button. Nurses will know what the patient needs before they arrive and its severity - if it's an emergency or a less life-threatening need. "

Free a intégré l'assistant vocal Alexa à sa nouvelle Freebox Delta. Il s'agit donc, aussi, d'une enceinte connectée et intelligente. Un bouton est présent pour activer/désactiver l'assistant vocal. Free a aussi inventé : "Ok Freebox". On peut ainsi contrôler son téléviseur à la voix.

Vidéo "scénario extrême" - intrusion dans le quotidien d'une famille

"You can train Alexa to recognize you by creating a voice profile. After you set up your profile, Alexa can call you by your name and deliver personalized results based on your voice. Further, Alexa can distinguish your voice from those of other people in the house. Anyone over the age of 13 can create a voice profile."

"Aujourd'hui, nous avons une logique expérientielle, nous croyons beaucoup dans la voix" Florence Chaffiote Directrice Marketing, Digital et Innovation de Monoprix.

page 15 "[...], we are also seeing personal assistants, like Alexa and Siri, seeking to pick up on the emotional undertones of human speech, with companies even going so far as to patent methods of marketing based on detecting emotions, as well as mental and physical health. The AI-enabled emotion measurement company Affectiva now promises it can promote safer driving by monitoring "driver and occupant emotions, cognitive states, and reactions to the driving experience...from face and voice." Yet there is little evidence that any of these systems actually work across different individuals, contexts, and cultures, or have any safeguards put in place to mitigate concerns about privacy, bias, or discrimination in their operation. Furthermore, as we have seen in the large literature on bias and fairness, classifications of this nature not only have direct impacts on human lives, but also serve as data to train and influence other AI systems. This raises the stakes for any use of affect recognition, further emphasizing why it should be critically examined and its use severely restricted."

podcast radio articles complémentaires : https://siecledigital.fr/2018/11/21/alexa-voix-presentateur/ https://developer.amazon.com/fr/blogs/alexa/post/7ab9665a-0536-4be2-aaad-18281ec59af8/varying-speaking-styles-with-neural-text-to-speech

"Danielle Reubenstein, executive creative director in the mobile division of the ad agency Possible, said she had been urging brands to view smart speakers as a way to connect with people rather than as a means to sell products - at least for now." "These are still early days for marketing on voice devices. Ms. Reubenstein compared it to when brands began making apps for mobile devices. But over time, she said, voice interactions will begin to replace many of the activities that people are conducting on screens."

"Depuis le 8 octobre, les personnes sourdes et malentendantes disposent d'un nouveau service téléphonique qui leur permet d'appeler n'importe quel interlocuteur : famille, amis, agences de voyage, écoles, hôpitaux etc.  Il leur suffit de télécharger sur leurs téléphones mobiles une application développée par une jeune start-up française RogerVoice."