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So here's my confusion. CPU prices are getting lower and processing power is getting higher as time goes on. We can emulate entire operating systems in a web b
by chippy 11y ago
So here's my confusion. CPU prices are getting lower and processing power is getting higher as time goes on.
We can emulate entire operating systems in a web browser now.
You can fit an entire routable, navigable map of the entire world on a mobile phone or usb stick. Every single named place and every single path or road between them on the planet on a phone, offline.
Why are we still thinking that we need the cloud to process speech? Why not do all the listening, all the private bits, locally, and optionally connect to specific services (Music, Shopping, hotels etc) as and when.
Why not?
- eveningcoffee 11y agoBecause if you do not move data to off the household, you could not steal it, repackage it and sell it. You also could not have control over the device and its user post purchase if the essential part of of the product is not under your direct control. These are in my opinion two major forces that motivate the appearance of "cloud".
- notahacker 11y agoThe cloud gives vendors a huge corpus of data to improve speech/query recognition accuracy and of course targeting of advertising...
- CaptSpify 11y agoSure, they can use it to make it better, but I've yet to see proof that they need it to process your voice. I'm definitely not knowledgeable in this area, but I'd imagine that they could make an internetless standalone product that translates, but choose not to.
- JD557 11y agoSome projects such as Jasper[1] actually do that. [1] https://jasperproject.github.io/ https://jasperproject.github.io/
- CaptSpify 11y agoI wouldn't use this as an example. Last I checked, Jasper still shelled out to Google/AT&T to do the voice-to-text translation EDIT: Oh, it looks like they have Pocket-sphinx and Julius now for internet-less systems. Interesting....
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