> I think the average consumer would notice that their device starts giving off a lot of heat if there's a lot of speech in range of its microphone. Interesti

> I think the average consumer would notice that their device starts giving off a lot of heat if there's a lot of speech in range of its microphone. Interesting point, my guess would be that not many would notice since a HomePod/Alexa/Google Home would usually sit somewhere in a corner of a room/under the TV and not be regularly touched since you don't need to touch it to control it most of the time. I am not even sure it would be that much heat, my x86 laptop can play video for a very long amount of time before getting noticeably hot, granted with a fan, however these ARM CPUs get noticeably less hot than your average Intel chip, even without a fan.