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Re:Google Home by highwind on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @10:27PM (#11727531)
> I'm not buying you couldn't make a decent, self-contained, off-line speech recognition system.

I agree. It's not a problem of technology, it's a problem of incentive. There's no money in developing self-contained, off-line speech recognition system, unfortunately.

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Re:Google Home by scrollaway on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @11:13PM (#11727705)
> There's no money in developing self-contained, off-line speech recognition system

Nonsense. Self-hosting is highly valued in the enterprise sector. But we're not talking about the sort of products that could be sold to consumers for a few hundred dollars here.

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