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Yahoo And Google Now Let You Opt Out Of Ads (Because It’s Better Than Letting You Opt In)

Google Built Phone Service to Train Speech-to-Text Software

If you’ve called the 800-GOOG-411 at all chances are your voice is being used to train Google’s speech to text recognition (also read as Skynet). I kinda wish Google would have owned up to this one at lot sooner. On the other hand - a perfect way to get millions of samples of human speech, with different accents, pronunciations, inflections, etc. Whoever thought this one up at Google is getting a pat on the back.