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Re:Google is nerfing all Home Minis because mine spied on ev... by phkahler on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @07:16AM (#15448813)
The notion that voice recognition is still hard enough to require doing it on a server somewhere still bothers me a lot. IMHO there should be no excuse for this today. I understand that the device needs to be connected to the internet anyway, but this whole thing is such a gimmick it's not worth the privacy risk.

[edit] to clarify I think speech to text can be done on a device today, that's why this bothers me.

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Re:Google is nerfing all Home Minis because mine spied on ev... by kodablah on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @07:40AM (#15448927)
> voice recognition is still hard enough to require doing it on a server

I'm not sure this is true, it's just that since they are phoning home anyways, why commit to extra local hardware to change sound bytes into text words?

I would love to see an offline version of one of these with an easy API (do any high quality ones exist?). If I then wanted a generic Google request to give me the first Google response, so be it.

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Re:Google is nerfing all Home Minis because mine spied on ev... by hipitihop on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @10:09AM (#15449871)
The awesome folk at Snips are challenging the idea that you can't do it locally https://snips.ai/technology/
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Re:Google is nerfing all Home Minis because mine spied on ev... by kodablah on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @11:45AM (#15450662)
Nice. I wish every route I took there didn't require me to sign up. But I did find https://github.com/snipsco and am browsing now.
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Re:Google is nerfing all Home Minis because mine spied on ev... by smileysteve on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @02:55PM (#15452293)
> is still hard enough to require doing it on a server

Hot word detection would suggest that voice is easy. "Accent" and "Intent" recognition is the hard part.

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Re:Google is nerfing all Home Minis because mine spied on ev... by Eridrus on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @07:29AM (#15448876)
Not sure what you mean exactly but this seems wrong. These devices do hotword (and speaker) recognition largely locally, but speech to text is done server side.
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