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Re:Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its f... by moconnor on Thursday April 27, 2023 @12:52PM (#35730991)
Siri does use on-device voice recognition. Active airplane mode and you can still use it.

Edit: for some commands only it seems. I agree with OP, this is odd.

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Re:Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its f... by shagie on Thursday April 27, 2023 @12:58PM (#35731097)
Its a question of if it can determine the intent ( https://developer.apple.com/documentation/sirikit ) on device or if it needs to go to the cloud to understand it.
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Re:Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its f... by nneonneo on Thursday April 27, 2023 @01:03PM (#35731170)
Seems like it does - cool! - but why does it sometimes spin for several seconds when faced with a seemingly simple request? I'm guessing it has some path where it tries to use the network if possible, but if the network is spotty then the requests timeout and it reports a failure?
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Re:Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its f... by ls612 on Thursday April 27, 2023 @01:09PM (#35731248)
It probably takes more time to run the analysis locally on a phone chip.
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Re:Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its f... by cglong on Thursday April 27, 2023 @03:12PM (#35733141)
When Google brought the Assistant locally to the Pixel, one of the talking points was how much faster it was.
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Re:Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its f... by yellowait44 on Thursday April 27, 2023 @01:01PM (#35731151)
Not on HomePods as far I as know.
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