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My understanding is that these devices (Siri, Echo) do their speech processing online, so by design everything gets uploaded in order to be interpreted. How ha
by dhimes 8y ago
My understanding is that these devices (Siri, Echo) do their speech processing online, so by design everything gets uploaded in order to be interpreted. How hard would it be to have a device like echo that didn't do its speech processing locally and only went online to get data it didn't have? So if I ask for an alarm in an hour, or to play a song I own, or something else that doesn't require data from the "cloud" the command never leaves the house- and, in fact, all conversations stay private and only the "fetch" is external to the system.
- feistypharit 8y agoExcept they don't do anything locally. They can't play music from your nas. Only the cloud, which I'd argue even though you may pay for it, you don't own it.
- dhimes 8y agoSiri doesn't need to go to the cloud to play songs on my iTunes or set an alarm to wake me up in an hour or dictate a message- that's all on my phone. It only needs to use the cloud for the speech processing. Which is what prompted my comment. There's no reason a voice-activated app couldn't play music from my network-attached storage if it could parse the commands.
- greenmountin 8y agoThere is an early-stage community-sourced device which does processing offline: mycroft.ai
- dhimes 8y agocool-thanks.
- la6470 8y agoDumb