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by hfpn 3954 days ago
The problem with Cortona and Siri is that they process everything on remote servers while it could easily be done on a local machine. They do this to be able to save all that data (and take away your privacy).

Apple saves Siri's audio for 2 years for example... not sure what Microsoft's policy is on this...
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urda 3954 days ago
> The problem with Cortona and Siri is that they process everything on remote servers while it could easily be done on a local machine.

Please enlighten the HN crowd and provide a reference for this claim.

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hfpn 3954 days ago
sorry I was thinking mostly about voice recognition... which would already be a big plus if it was done locally.
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overgryphon 3954 days ago
Are there any existing products comparable in quality and speed to Cortana/Siri that do all of the processing locally?
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hfpn 3954 days ago
if they would open source them, then maybe....
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sliverstorm 3954 days ago
... could easily be done on a local machine.

I think you're going to need to provide some evidence to support that. It is not intuitively obvious in the slightest, especially given how frequently Cortana/Siri/GoogleNow trip up even with a data center backing them.

Seriously, if processing locally was so easy but they still wanted to steal all your data, they would crunch it locally & give results, and silently ship off the recording to an archive in parallel. Local processing is cheaper for them (bandwidth, compute) and faster for you.

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