Apple suspends Siri response grading in response to privacy concerns

Re:Apple suspends Siri response grading in response to priva... by starsinspace on Friday August 02, 2019 @10:04AM (#20592985)

Nope, it does not. Only the trigger phrase (“Hey Siri“) is recognised locally on the device (according to Apple), everything that comes after that is sent as audio recording snippet to Apple servers where the actual speech recognition happens.

There are rumours [0] that Apple might enable local speech-to-text at some point, but as of now, that’s not how it works.

[0] https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/11/15/apple-considering...

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Re:Apple suspends Siri response grading in response to priva... by inscionent on Friday August 02, 2019 @12:04PM (#20594068)

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208343

> You can use dictation instead of your keyboard to enter text with many apps and features that use the iOS keyboard.

> On iPhone 6s or later, and iPad, you can use dictation without being connected to the Internet. Earlier models of iPhone and iPad require an Internet connection.

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Re:Apple suspends Siri response grading in response to priva... by starsinspace on Friday August 02, 2019 @01:51PM (#20595042)

Sadly, offline dictation is a separate feature, it is not the speech-recognition used for Siri.

Quote directly from Apple:

"The recording of the user’s spoken words is sent to Apple’s voice recognition server. If the task involves dictation only, the recognized text is sent back to the device. "

Source:

Page 69 in https://www.apple.com/business/site/docs/iOS_Security_Guide....

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Re:Apple suspends Siri response grading in response to priva... by jhayward on Friday August 02, 2019 @12:11PM (#20594136)

I just put my iPhone in airplane mode and used speech to text to enter a full paragraph in Notes.

Siri is the service. Speech to text, while it can be improved with network access, works fine without it on current iOS.

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