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from the keynote, no information is sent to Apple for processing. Whether it'll work if you're not signed into iCloud is a different issue but from the way it's
by mark212 8y ago
from the keynote, no information is sent to Apple for processing. Whether it'll work if you're not signed into iCloud is a different issue but from the way it's described in various places in the WWDC Keynote, it ought to work just fine without any data connection, like airplane mode and no Wifi.
- rueynshard 8y agoWouldn't the user's speech data need to be sent to Apple to convert to text, or identify the intent first?
- peckrob 8y agoWe were doing speech recognition 20 years ago without any kind of networking. I dictated part of a term paper in 1995. Dragon Dictate I think is what it was called. You could even navigate the word processor menus and UI with it, or say things like “make that bold” and it usually worked! Just a bit less often often than Siri works actually. Sure it was more of a novelty, and had to be trained on your voice. But that was 20 years ago.
- walterbell 8y agoNot only is Dragon still a product, it is owned by Nuance, which helped to develop Siri and drew on SRI research, https://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerkay/2014/03/24/behind-apples-siri-lies-nuances-speech-recognition/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerkay/2014/03/24/behind-appl...
- Angostura 8y agoHence Siri’s name.
- MiddleEndian 8y agoEven Apple had this working a long long time ago in classic mac os. I used to launch all my applications via voice til I got bored of it.
- systoll 8y agoAlso, a purely local 'Voice Control' was standard in iOS 3-4, and it's still there in iOS12... just, buried.