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It's interesting how they talk about "doing as much on device as possible"... but Siri's voice recognition still works by sending the Siri request audio to an Apple server and doing the voice recognition there (only the trigger phrase "hey siri" is recognized on-device). Why isn't it all done on-device? I'm pretty sure even older iPhones have more than enough CPU-power for that.

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GeekyBear|6 years ago

Isn't this something that only recently has become possible, and still has an accuracy cost?

starsinspace|6 years ago

iOS already has a separate feature "offline dictation" which works on-device. I don't understand why that isn't used for Siri.

Also about "recently"... back in the late 90s I had a desktop PC running Windows 98, I think it was a Pentium 166 MHz with 32 MB RAM. On it, I had a voice recognition program called "Dragon Naturally Speaking". It required a little training with my voice but after that, it worked remarkably well. And that was over 20 years ago on a PC with a - by today's standards - very primitive CPU. Decent voice recognition isn't new technology.