[krisroadruck]

Assuming its sending it as audio, and not as transcribed text which is both smaller and also much more compressible.

[Analog24]

ASR is a hugely complex process that is handled by ML algorithms on Amazon's servers. The echo simply does not have the hardware to handle this on it's own.

[krisroadruck]

Is it though? Not trying to be argumentative but I remember using dragon naturally speaking to do voice dictation way back in like 98 on a processor that makes today's average smartphone look like a supercomputer. I thought all the ML stuff was for figuring out context and the like, but straight transcription?

[nerpderp83]

Modern voice codecs are extremely compact. An annotated text representation of voice will take up equivalent space.