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Stop Touching Your Keyboard. Use This AI-Powered Microphone Instead

WIRED — AI · · International · AI Governance

A new AI-powered microphone called the Relay Q, expected to launch next year, is designed to make voice the primary way people interact with computers, reducing reliance on traditional keyboard input.

Why this matters: Voice interfaces are convenient right now and a privacy problem later. Every word you speak to a device has to go somewhere to be processed. That means a microphone always listening, audio data leaving your machine, and someone — the company, a cloud provider, a future acquirer — holding recordings of your commands, questions, and habits. Keyboards do not listen between keystrokes. Microphones do. Before voice-first becomes the default, it is worth being clear about where that audio goes and who keeps it.

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