Sending data to a server isn't that "comically clumsy", light speed is very fast. https://superuser.com/questions/419070/transatlantic-ping-faster-than-sending-

Sending data to a server isn't that "comically clumsy", light speed is very fast. https://superuser.com/questions/419070/transatlantic-ping-faster-than-sending-a-pixel-to-the-screen https://superuser.com/questions/419070/transatlantic-ping-fa... Unless you're talking about privacy, there I agree, I would much rather my phone do voice recognition locally than send it to google servers (where it'll be stored [0] so they can train better models later). That's a bit of a catch-22 though, if people don't need to send you their data to use your model then you won't get data for training your model. [0] https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity?restrict=vaa https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity?restrict=vaa