Recent research has shown that voice recognition itself can be compromised with unsettling ease. An estimated 27 million Echo and Google Home devices have been sold, and 4.4 million were expected to be sold this past holiday season. Cybercriminals are already thinking of ways to hijack voice-activated devices, such as the Amazon Echo and Apples Siri and Google Now. The Berkeley researchers only tested their technique on DeepSpeech, which isnt used by any of the major voice recognition products.”]

