> It's the same as the annoying wait while Alexa or Siri sends your voice data off to a cloud to be processed (which is utterly unnecessary for the recognition

> It's the same as the annoying wait while Alexa or Siri sends your voice data off to a cloud to be processed (which is utterly unnecessary for the recognition part). True - in fact the iPhone actually does transcription on-device, AFAIK the cloud loop is for validation and to get answers. Dont believe me? Put your iphone in airplane mode and use the dictation button on your keyboard!