Speech Triggered Mobility Support and Privacy

Abstract

Current voice assistants are offered by large IT companies such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple or Baidu. The voice assistants include numerous functionalities, which are usually executed centrally in the cloud by the providers. Nevertheless, the providers offer imprecise information on what happens to the input data of the users. Users cannot be sure whether their privacy and data are protected. The central research question is what is currently happening with the voice-based interaction between users and services, and what concepts for configurable data protection by users are conceivable in the future. In this article, we present the survey results obtained by speech assistant users. The results show, in particular, the willingness to pay for individually configurable privacy. The concept for a voice assistant with privacy-awareness is proposed and prototypically implemented.