[scarface74]

How hard do you really think it is to build intents into something like Siri once you have the underlying technology framework?

Yes I have experience building intents on top of something like Siri.

[supermatt]

It’s not the complexity of building intents that costs the money. Near real-time speech inference at scale doesn’t come for free. It’s only very recently that has started moving to the edge.

[scarface74]

Speech inference has been done well enough locally for well over a decade. While an Alexa device probably couldn’t do it, any modern iPhone could.

[supermatt]

> Speech inference has been done well enough locally for well over a decade

The first Alexa device was released in March 2014 - almost 9 years ago. Siri was a couple of years before that.

> While an Alexa device probably couldn’t do it, any modern iPhone could.

And that is why it is done in the cloud and has only recently started moving to the edge.