On Sat, 8 Apr 2017 10:09:29 -0700 (PDT), trader_4
wrote:

That's how I view it too. What MSFT is doing with Win 10 is very
similar to what has been going on with smartphones for a long time
and to a large extent on any PC that you use to browse the internet.
Diesel is hung up on Win 10 allegedly recording your speech for some
nefarious purpose. AFAIK, it only uses your speech if you use Cortana.
And using Cortana is essentially the same thing as using speech to
search, ask questions, etc. on an Android or iPhone. Somehow hundreds
of millions around the world are living with that and the other data
that is collected about what pages you visited, what you voice searched
for, where you are at the moment, etc.

If your speech is used to improve "speech recognition" O don't see a
real problem with it. Think of the many dialects and regional accents
people have.

Jokingly, my neighbor told Alexa "My ass hurts!" Alexa sent her a
link with the distance and directions to the nearest hospital. :-)