Samsung has clarified its terms and conditions to say that it has a contract with a voice recognition company called
Nuance Communications, Inc to handle its voice recognition. This si the "third party" that gets access to the spoken commands for the TV.
FYI Nuance Communications is the developer of Dragon Naturally Speaking that I mentioned.
Several years ago there were dozens of developers, including IBM with its very deep pockets and massive computing power, working on natural language voice recognition and spending many millions on developing the technology. The field has since narrowed down to a very few and rather than becoming more common and less expensive such systems remain uncommon and very expensive. A testament to the difficulty of the task. Dragon Naturally Speaking requires hours to train the software to recognize the speakers voice patterns and the speaker must learn to speak in a way the software understands and at that 90% accuracy is considered average comprehension.
