Hear hear. Of course the cloud is not necessary for good speech recognition. There is no magic there, it's just servers running against a corpus that gets updat

Hear hear. Of course the cloud is not necessary for good speech recognition. There is no magic there, it's just servers running against a corpus that gets updated often. No reason why this couldn't be done locally, and text queries sent out for non-local requests (such as, what's the weather gonna be). But I gotta say, I have the feeling that the pendulum is gonna swing back pretty soon. I'm noticing more and more (regular) people being fed up and creeped out with the massive harvesting that Google, Facebook and Microsoft are doing. Opportunity awaits!