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Re:iPhone App will not stay open - just flashes when trying ... by herbst on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @08:00AM (#14031604)
Until you realize there are no voice recognation softwares that work well enough to not use Google or Amazon on the backend.
Re:iPhone App will not stay open - just flashes when trying ... by mizzao on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @10:15AM (#14032790)
Yep, cloud-based deep learning bla bla bla.

There is an actual reason to use the cloud for apps like this: there is enough data to power the machine learning algorithms at scale. Although I'm a hardware hacker I know I'd never be able to build a homebrew Echo running completely in my own house.