It's not unreasonable to expect the speech recognition models to be run locally. As to the wake word point, I agree. I don't think alexa/siri/etc are currently

It's not unreasonable to expect the speech recognition models to be run locally. As to the wake word point, I agree. I don't think alexa/siri/etc are currently bad or disrespecting privacy. I actually have a smart home with a voice assistant. However, my smart home is all local mesh network (zwave and zigbee) based through a FOSS bridge that doesn't talk to the internet. All lights are through smart switches, not bulbs. The end result is such that if the voice assistant service ever pisses me off, I can simply disconnect from it. If you read my comments in this article, I think I come off as a tin foil hat wearing lunatic, to some degree at least. But actually, I'm not a super privacy paranoid person. Telemetry, voice recognition datasets, etc... I think those are a reasonable price to pay for free stuff! I just want to have my thumb on the scale and a go-bag packed for when/if these services become "evil" ;)