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fladrif | 3 years ago

It doesn't need to upload audio data though, transcribing it to text would accomplish 90% of their use cases.

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I doubt the guts of something like an Echo would be capable of containing any kind of speech to text model. It'll probably be a lot more of a concern in a few years when speech models like that are getting baked into cheap chips for consumer devices, though.

woodruffw|3 years ago

I'm not as doubtful: iPhones have had on-device speech recognition since at least 2019, with iOS 13[1]. Amazon might have legal or policy reasons for not doing offline speech recognition, but the technology has been there for a while.

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/speech/sfspeechrec...

dehrmann|3 years ago

Early versions of Dragon Naturally Speaking ran on Pentiums.

vineyardmike|3 years ago

Not gen 1 devices but in 2023 some of the echos do partial on-device processing of commands (same with HomePods and same with Google home).

drstewart|3 years ago

How do you think it gets transcribed to text?