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by oh_hello 2212 days ago
An an iPhone user, I very often find speech recognition far too slow. It is to the point I rarely use the feature because it often causes frustration. The Google performance here is amazing.

Is this a feature only of Pixel phones?
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datguacdoh 2211 days ago
The more recent Pixel devices have a local accelerator for different machine learning tasks, they brand them Visual Core and more recently Neural Core. https://www.androidauthority.com/google-pixel-4-neural-core-... has more details and a lot of the speed up is probably tied to these being onboard.
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ChrisClark 2212 days ago
I just tested on my old OnePlus 5t, I find it's slower than the Pixel in this video, but still much faster than the iPhone.

It's not unique to the Pixel, it's just that it's a faster phone than my 5t.

But even though it's just a little slower than the Pixel, it makes a big difference. The closer it is to real-time, it seems to get so much better.

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