>Someone else was complaining about it affecting their cochlear implant. That is horrifying.
Definitely.
>It is awful that my CPU has to be constantly running a FFT to read this signal. I think Apple has an ASIC which does the Siri voice recognition.
Isn't it the zoom box that has to be doing the detection? The pc is just sending the signal, which wouldn't take much processing.
>It's awful that it triggers the orange light to be constantly on so you end up ignoring it.
I think someone commented that's for the purpose of detecting if someone is muted and notifying them. Still, there should definitely be a choice to disable this behavior. I wouldn't be able to ignore it.
>What if Zoom is simultaneously using the microphone stream for nefarious purposes.
There's a lot of nefarious things they could potentially do even without using the mic, considering it's software already running on your pc that already has an encrypted connection to their servers.
> Isn't it the zoom box that has to be doing the detection? The pc is just sending the signal, which wouldn't take much processing.
If the PC were just sending the signal it wouldn't need the microphone to be on. And it would stop working when people turn off their speakers like a lot of people do in a busy meeting room.
By the way there seem to be other ways to do it too. Not sure if it's Bluetooth but MS Teams warned me in the past that I was in a room with a Surface display (the huge first generation one). It doesn't keep the microphone active though.. I never investigated how it figured that.
Definitely.
>It is awful that my CPU has to be constantly running a FFT to read this signal. I think Apple has an ASIC which does the Siri voice recognition.
Isn't it the zoom box that has to be doing the detection? The pc is just sending the signal, which wouldn't take much processing.
>It's awful that it triggers the orange light to be constantly on so you end up ignoring it.
I think someone commented that's for the purpose of detecting if someone is muted and notifying them. Still, there should definitely be a choice to disable this behavior. I wouldn't be able to ignore it.
>What if Zoom is simultaneously using the microphone stream for nefarious purposes.
There's a lot of nefarious things they could potentially do even without using the mic, considering it's software already running on your pc that already has an encrypted connection to their servers.
>This is what Bluetooth was made for.
Good point, that would have been better.