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I wonder if it's less that Google Home can't have the local intelligence due to lack of storage/memory/processing, and more that they want to keep it away from

I wonder if it's less that Google Home can't have the local intelligence due to lack of storage/memory/processing, and more that they want to keep it away from their competitors? Could Google reasonably put their current voice recognition in a small device?

ghaff 9y ago
The evidence would suggest it would be hard. I've played around with various dictation software over the years and it's always been pretty awful. It's only recently with the cloud-based services that it's started to approach usable. Software that limits itself to specific keywords can absolutely work well. After all, Google and Alexa do it with their wake words. A voice activated timer could be built fairly easily if it hasn't been done already. General purpose is a lot harder--and then you need the Internet connection for a lot of the queries anyway so there's no real reason to build in local voice recognition if you then can't really do anything useful with it.
veli_joza 9y ago
Google is actually working on this. At this year's IO they announced that they are working with silicon manufacturers to include hardware acceleration for their TensorFlow Lite framework. This makes it possible to do on-device speech recognition and natural language processing while keeping the power consumption at acceptable levels.