To my knowledge, we've generally recognized a difference between recording and immediate processing. Does a voice changer "record" you, if it adjusts the audio on the fly and doesn't store anything? VoIP phones arguably "record" the audio from your microphone and transfer it over the line to output to another party, but we don't call that recording either.
I think the biggest issue here is how smart speakers work: They record your audio and then send it to be permanently stored on Google, Amazon, or Apple's servers, rather than being processed locally and discarded, which we have the technology to do just fine today.
The only reason we're retaining voice recordings is to provide valuable data to the companies in question.
I think the biggest issue here is how smart speakers work: They record your audio and then send it to be permanently stored on Google, Amazon, or Apple's servers, rather than being processed locally and discarded, which we have the technology to do just fine today.
The only reason we're retaining voice recordings is to provide valuable data to the companies in question.