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Re:Samsung Global Privacy Policy - SmartTV Supplement by maccard on Sunday February 08, 2015 @10:14AM (#9017422)
Siri, and Cortana (iOS and WP8 voice recognition engines) both send the clip to a remote server to perform recognition.

There are many services that provide real time processing of large amounts of data on server cluster/farms, and more are coming. It is very much possible to perform large computations in almost real time in these situations, and you'd be surprised at how little latency people notice, particularly when there's no indication of what the actual number is.

Re:Samsung Global Privacy Policy - SmartTV Supplement by learnstats2 on Sunday February 08, 2015 @10:37AM (#9017492)
I wasn't aware that people generally found Siri usable.
Re:Samsung Global Privacy Policy - SmartTV Supplement by thanksgiving on Sunday February 08, 2015 @10:51AM (#9017524)
It is genuinely comic when I see what kind of questions my non-technical friends ask Siri. I can't imagine the thought process of how Siri could put together the information from the ramblings of a person much less answer the query...
Re:Samsung Global Privacy Policy - SmartTV Supplement by maccard on Sunday February 08, 2015 @01:17PM (#9017966)
That doesn't add anything to this discussion. Siri is more than usable for a lot of things - I can set alarms, timers, and make calls without reaching for my phone. I'm not saying that it's revolutionary, but it definitely works.
Re:Samsung Global Privacy Policy - SmartTV Supplement by learnstats2 on Tuesday February 10, 2015 @04:53PM (#9030177)
From my point of view it did add significantly to the discussion.

I'm surprised to learn that people do use Siri in genuine situations, so thanks for your reply in that regard; although I still feel gratified that another commenter has the same experience that I do.