• blame [they/them]
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      3 months ago

      To Camdat's point, a general transcription is definitely not low power even if you have some kind of gating on when it transcribes. Obviously Apple and Google and Samsung and whoever makes the phone can turn on the mic without you knowing, otherwise how would their voice assistant work, but Apple probably isn't letting Facebook have access to the mic without throwing something up on the status bar.