Intelligent voice assistants (IVAs) and other voice-enabled devices already form an integral
component of the Internet of Things and will continue to grow in popularity. As their …

Voice has become an increasingly popular User Interaction (UI) channel, with voice-
activated devices becoming regular fixtures in our homes. The popularity of voice-based …

Voice assistants (VAs) are becoming highly popular recently as a general means of
interacting with the Internet of Things. However, the use of always-on microphones on VAs …

Intelligent voice assistants may soon become proactive, offering suggestions without being
directly invoked. Such behavior increases privacy risks, since proactive operation requires …

Voice assistants have become quite popular lately while in parallel they are an important
part of smart-home systems. Through their voice assistants, users can perform various tasks …

Voice assistants raise serious security and privacy concerns because they use always-on
microphones in sensitive locations (eg, inside a home) and send audio recordings to the …

Personal Voice Assistants (PVAs) such as the Siri, Amazon Echo and Google Home are now
commonplace. PVAs continuously monitor conversations which may be transported to a …

Smart home voice assistants (VAs) such as Amazon Echo and Google Home have become
popular because of the convenience they provide through voice commands. VAs …

Much has been written about privacy in the context of conversational and voice assistants.
Yet, there have been remarkably few developments in terms of the actual privacy offered by …

With the development and increasing deployment of smart home devices, voice control
supports comfortable end user interactions. However, potential end users may refuse to use …