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[-] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

This is simply not true. Low bit compressed audio is small amounts of bandwidth you would never notice on home internet. And recognizing wakewords? Tiny, tiny amounts of processing. Google's design is for accuracy and control, a marketing team cares nothing about that. They'll use an algorithm that just grabs everything.

Yes, this would be battery intensive on phones when not plugged in. But triggering on power, via CarPlay, or on smart speakers is trivial.

I'm still skeptical, but not because of this.

Edit: For creds: Developer specializing in algorithm creation and have previously rolled my own hardware and branch for MyCroft.

this post was submitted on 15 Dec 2023
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