> When you make a request using Firefox Voice, the browser captures the audio and uses cloud-based services to transcribe and then process the request. Is it t

> When you make a request using Firefox Voice, the browser captures the audio and uses cloud-based services to transcribe and then process the request. Is it that hard to do local processing, either due to computational power or storage requirements? Or is it just more convenient for them to do it this way? Edit: this comment in another subthread kind of answered the question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24098950 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24098950 If I'm drawing the right conclusion, it's a bit of both: hundreds of megabytes of storage is fine for most people but not everyone, and while I probably wouldn't listen to the latest and greatest artists (and binary diffs are a thing, small additions aren't that large), it is convenient for devs to just push it to a server and be done rather than pushing model updates to everyone all the time. Edit2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24096836 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24096836 Wait, what?! The data is all sent to Google? I was thinking of using this for their sake (opting into using my data for common voice) but this is an instant deal breaker.