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Unless they are capable of doing the speech-to-text on-device, then the amount of data is negligible. Hell, if they were really crafty they could have it liste

Unless they are capable of doing the speech-to-text on-device, then the amount of data is negligible. Hell, if they were really crafty they could have it listen for a specific phrase or word, then send back as little as a single byte signifying that it was heard. (I own an echo and a few Google homes, and I don't actually think this is happening, but the idea is kind of fun to chase)

sitkack 9y ago
> Unless they are capable of doing the speech-to-text on-device, then the amount of data is negligible. What is the lowest bitrate codec and how does it compare to the plaintext version?
- Klathmon 9y ago
  Well considering text is literally hundreds of bytes, I can't imagine audio would be able to keep up.
  - sitkack 9y ago
    Take a look at the BoE calc that someone else did in this thread, it might shed some light on what is possible.
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secabeen 9y ago
Yeah, that is an interesting idea. I'm not sure anyone is making an ASIC for speech-to-text right now, but if they were, it could enable this sort of thing. Might show up in a teardown, though. A General Purpise CPU could of course, do it, but that would push the bill of materials for the device up quite a bit.