[equark]

Impressively fast. Is the voice recognition being done exclusively on Google's servers or is there a local component?

[TrevorJ]

With as fast as it's working I would be shocked if a chunk of it wasn't being done locally. I think the refinement may be server side (IE: looking at the words in context against popular search strings to see if it may have miss-interpreted a word in the search string).

[cheald]

Android 4.1 introduced local voice recognition, and I expect they put some of that juice into this product. It works incredibly fast in either case.

[Caligula]

I would guess all server side but maybe they extract features on the device to save some processing/data.