> doing natural language processing on the resulting audio recording is what must be offloaded to Amazon, as it's too computationally heavy to perform that pro

> doing natural language processing on the resulting audio recording is what must be offloaded to Amazon, as it's too computationally heavy to perform that process locally. This is an unquestioned assumption actually. I think it's way more to do with the NLP system being very very proprietary. I wouldn't be surprised if it could be done locally, computing is pretty powerful, but they never bothered to even try and make it work locally. Because "cloud computing" is a dream come true for businesses, hiding their special sauce, not having to explain what they're doing (whether it's hard or not) and always maintain control.