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Re:How Apple let Siri fall behind the Google Assistant and A... by icebraining on Thursday March 15, 2018 @05:11AM (#16591333)
Or, let the user name it. Why not?

Supposedly these devices have low-power chips that can only recognize certain pre-configured names (like "OK, Google"), and then wake up the main CPU to do the rest.

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Re:How Apple let Siri fall behind the Google Assistant and A... by ddingus on Thursday March 15, 2018 @01:05PM (#16594597)
Ahh, didn't know that. Makes a ton of sense.
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