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The problem with Cortona and Siri is that they process everything on remote servers while it could easily be done on a local machine. They do this to be able to
by hfpn 11y ago
The problem with Cortona and Siri is that they process everything on remote servers while it could easily be done on a local machine. They do this to be able to save all that data (and take away your privacy).
Apple saves Siri's audio for 2 years for example... not sure what Microsoft's policy is on this...
- overgryphon 11y agoAre there any existing products comparable in quality and speed to Cortana/Siri that do all of the processing locally?
- hfpn 11y agoif they would open source them, then maybe....
- urda 11y ago> The problem with Cortona and Siri is that they process everything on remote servers while it could easily be done on a local machine. Please enlighten the HN crowd and provide a reference for this claim.
- hfpn 11y agosorry I was thinking mostly about voice recognition... which would already be a big plus if it was done locally.
- sliverstorm 11y ago... could easily be done on a local machine. I think you're going to need to provide some evidence to support that. It is not intuitively obvious in the slightest, especially given how frequently Cortana/Siri/GoogleNow trip up even with a data center backing them. Seriously, if processing locally was so easy but they still wanted to steal all your data, they would crunch it locally & give results, and silently ship off the recording to an archive in parallel. Local processing is cheaper for them (bandwidth, compute) and faster for you.