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The offline aspect is hardly the main draw here though. As mentioned earlier in the article, the latency reduction is huge. Another aspect they didn't really co

The offline aspect is hardly the main draw here though. As mentioned earlier in the article, the latency reduction is huge. Another aspect they didn't really cover is privacy implications. Lastly, you may not be offline, but dodgy connections can also be a pain if you need a stable stream of packets going back and forth.

ksec 8y ago
>As mentioned earlier in the article, the latency reduction is huge. Well, on macOS offline voice recognition is actually much slower than online. Not to mention the choice of words and Vocab is quite limited. I love to get an offline version, but so far every online version seems to be better.
- i_cant_speel 8y ago
  I don't think that means this one will be slower. Google has always been the leader in the voice recognition field. I'll bet they'll do offline processing better than Apple.
  - ksec 8y ago
    >Google has always been the leader in the voice recognition field Interestingly may be only for English. In my experience Apple is doing far better in Japanese, Chinese ( Both Mandarin and Cantonese )
pault 8y ago
I refuse to put an amazon/apple/google surveillance device in my home, so I am very interested in a DIY digital assistant device. I'm aware of a few options but it seems like offline voice recognition is always a little sub-par. I am really looking forward to the day when an offline, open source digital assistant can compare in quality to a proprietary/cloud device.
- snaky 8y ago
  It shouldn't be offline, using recognition online but at your own cloud would be the way too.
  - blkhawk 8y ago
    uh, "cloud" isn't a magical thing that has specialized hardware for voice recognition. It is just a computer. Just like the device you have locally. So if the device locally can run the NN then there is no need to have a "cloud" do it. You only add latency.
    - snaky 8y ago
      On-demand Xeon with GPU in the cloud is quite different from local ESP32.
- PetahNZ 8y ago
  https://github.com/leon-ai/leon https://github.com/leon-ai/leon
- pdog 8y ago
  > I refuse to put an amazon/apple/google surveillance device in my home... Do you have a smartphone? Because that's most likely an Apple or Google surveillance device.
  - deleted 8y ago
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- j88439h84 8y ago
  https://github.com/NaomiProject/Naomi https://github.com/NaomiProject/Naomi

ksec 8y ago

>As mentioned earlier in the article, the latency reduction is huge. Well, on macOS offline voice recognition is actually much slower than online. Not to mention the choice of words and Vocab is quite limited. I love to get an offline version, but so far every online version seems to be better.

i_cant_speel 8y ago
I don't think that means this one will be slower. Google has always been the leader in the voice recognition field. I'll bet they'll do offline processing better than Apple.
- ksec 8y ago
  >Google has always been the leader in the voice recognition field Interestingly may be only for English. In my experience Apple is doing far better in Japanese, Chinese ( Both Mandarin and Cantonese )

pault 8y ago

I refuse to put an amazon/apple/google surveillance device in my home, so I am very interested in a DIY digital assistant device. I'm aware of a few options but it seems like offline voice recognition is always a little sub-par. I am really looking forward to the day when an offline, open source digital assistant can compare in quality to a proprietary/cloud device.

snaky 8y ago
It shouldn't be offline, using recognition online but at your own cloud would be the way too.
- blkhawk 8y ago
  uh, "cloud" isn't a magical thing that has specialized hardware for voice recognition. It is just a computer. Just like the device you have locally. So if the device locally can run the NN then there is no need to have a "cloud" do it. You only add latency.
  - snaky 8y ago
    On-demand Xeon with GPU in the cloud is quite different from local ESP32.
PetahNZ 8y ago
https://github.com/leon-ai/leon https://github.com/leon-ai/leon
pdog 8y ago
> I refuse to put an amazon/apple/google surveillance device in my home... Do you have a smartphone? Because that's most likely an Apple or Google surveillance device.
- deleted 8y ago
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j88439h84 8y ago
https://github.com/NaomiProject/Naomi https://github.com/NaomiProject/Naomi