[zachm0]

Small knit pick, but speech to text isn’t lossless. How someone says the words has a lot of impact on the meaning of those words. It’s possible Amazon doesn’t care about that lost information but that is a completely different conversation.

[asfginino]

That's true. Speech to text also isn't entirely accurate, which loses some information.

Even when they actually do ship audio off the device for processing, I'd be surprised if it's done losslessly.

[scollet]

For anyone curious about this, I highly recommend developing on CMU Sphinx for a weekend project. It will really paint some pictures about machine interpretation based on training data and the actual application code.