Comment by walterbell
2 months ago
Privacy-seeking users have physically removed microphones from phones. This should also be possible with laptops and televisions.
If Toshiba Fire TV is related to Amazon Fire TV, then it may include Alexa for voice recognition, which could be optionally disabled. In theory, Alexa is only activated after on-device recognition of the configured wake word.
Removed microphones from… phones? How do you use the phone then?
Most things people use phones for nowadays don't need a microphone. And in the rare case you do, you plug in/connect a headset.
Headset.