#google leak

A Belgian news organization has revealed that Google hires subcontractors to listen and review audio files recorded by Google Assistant.   VRT NWS, a news organization based in Brussels, Belgium, reported that they were able was able to talk to someone who works for a company that Google has subcontracted and lets them look at the system that collects audio via Google Assistant. The news organization was allowed to listen to more than a thousand excerpts recorded via Google Assistant from users in Belgium and the Netherlands. VRT NWS said that in more than a thousand experts, "153 of which were conversations that should never have been recorded" because the 'Okay Google' command was clearly not given. "As soon as someone in the vicinity utters a word that sounds a bit like 'Okay Google', Google Home starts to record." In response to the report, Google explained in a blog post that they partner with language experts around the world who understand the nuances and accents of a specific language. The language experts review and transcribe a small set of queries to help Google better understand those languages, which is a critical part of the process of building speech technology for products like Google Assistant. Read more in our articles including "Google to investigate Assistant audio recordings leak" and "Pasig Mega Market gets Starlink internet for cashless payments".