I was getting prepared to argue with you, but then I thought about it and realized you were right. I'm not prepared to give Google that much control over my hou

I was getting prepared to argue with you, but then I thought about it and realized you were right. I'm not prepared to give Google that much control over my house, especially when it's completely cloud-based. However, I am totally willing to use cloud-based voice recognition software, because the machine learning clusters required don't fit in my house. Sure, you can run basic voice recognition software on a server or a laptop. But that only gets you maybe 80% accuracy if you're lucky. There is a huge difference between 80% and 98% accuracy, it's the difference between using something every day, and turning it off after a week of frustration. (I've been there myself, I tried building my own voice recognition system for home automation.) But I think that's really the only packet that needs to leave my home network. I hate that my Philips Hue bulbs need an internet connection to work.