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Re:Google speakers are listening to more than just voice com... by lotu on Saturday August 08, 2020 @04:27PM (#24094947)
> They could do speech recognition on the device and then ship off the plain text

Not with the tiny cheap CPUs that are one these devices they couldn't. Or at least not very effective speech recognition.

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Re:Google speakers are listening to more than just voice com... by MiroF on Sunday August 09, 2020 @12:04PM (#24100513)
I think you overestimate how CPU intensive the inference is.
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