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Assuming its sending it as audio, and not as transcribed text which is both smaller and also much more compressible.
by krisroadruck 9y ago
Assuming its sending it as audio, and not as transcribed text which is both smaller and also much more compressible.
- Analog24 9y agoASR is a hugely complex process that is handled by ML algorithms on Amazon's servers. The echo simply does not have the hardware to handle this on it's own.
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- krisroadruck 9y agoIs it though? Not trying to be argumentative but I remember using dragon naturally speaking to do voice dictation way back in like 98 on a processor that makes today's average smartphone look like a supercomputer. I thought all the ML stuff was for figuring out context and the like, but straight transcription?
- nerpderp83 9y agoModern voice codecs are extremely compact. An annotated text representation of voice will take up equivalent space.