A simple ring-system enables smart control of electric switches.
Smart home devices, which monitor activities based on noise, can be beneficial for health reasons. For older people living alone, for example.
Still, integrated microphones are always listening, and when they recognise voices or snatches of conversation it impacts users’ privacy.
Enter a university team which has developed a new software to prevent device manufacturers from profiling clients through voices or reconstructing their conversations using AI.
The software is installed directly on the processors in devices. Instead of distorting voices, it filters and removes them from sound files before they are sent anywhere (a technique called ‘edge computing’).
Users’ personal details can be protected from AI systems; online music too.
