Samsung has registered a patent for the automatic update of the phone book

A new patent from Samsung describes the technology of automatic updating of the mobile phone book. According to their idea, your smartphone processes and remembers the voice pattern of your friends, whose numbers are in your phone book. And the next time a friend suddenly calls you from an unknown phone number, his voice will be recognized. After that, the smartphone may offer to add its new number to the list.

Of course, while this is only a patent. It will be interesting to try the technology in practice, check the quality of voice recognition. It also raises questions about the need for such an opportunity - after all, people usually rarely change phone numbers. Moreover, in many countries it is already possible to change the operator without changing the number.

If you imagine the possibility of further expanding the use of technology, then, by analogy with the recognition of people in photos on Facebook, you can imagine a cloud storage of voice patterns that identifies the caller by voice, even if you didn’t have his phone in the book. The fact that such a system is already quite simple to do cannot but cause alarming sensations among supporters of privacy and privacy.