It's not clear what happens to collected data

[jankeromnes]

While reading the website, one gets the impression that Jasper sends all collected voice data to someone online, which is a big trade-off even compared to Jasper's awesome functionality.

I read through almost all of the website, looking for a note about what would happen to my data:

• Home page just says "Always listening" (scary)
• Documentation hints that an internet connection is required (scary)
• Documentation also says that "Gmail password [...] will never leave the Pi", which is hard to believe if email access is supposed to work

Maybe you could add an FAQ entry like "What happens to the data collected by Jasper?", mentioning what really happens to always-on voice data in CMUSphinx, third-party service credentials, request history etc. (Something that replies to "Can a company / government entity listen in with Jasper"?).

[patrickjquinn]

To the best of my knowledge Jasper uses wit.ai or Google Cloud speech in some cases for voice recognition. Those are both online services (Google both of them, you'll get all the answers you need) and thus require an internet connection.

As for a gmail creds...they go to gmail to authenticate and get your email...

It's an open source project end to end, unless they are using some internal online service I'm unaware of the answers should be right here...in the code for all to see.