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CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

I don’t have any questions. This is something I know a lot about at a very technical level.

The difference between one wake word and one thousand is marginal at most. At the hardware level the mic is still listening non-stop, and the audio is still being processed. It *has" to do that otherwise it wouldn’t be able to look for even one word. And then from there it doesn’t matter if it’s one word or 10k. It’s still processing the audio data through a model.

And that’s the key part, it doesn’t matter if the model has one output or thousands, the data still bounces through each layer of the network. The processing requirements are exactly the same (assuming the exact same model).

This is the part you simply do not understand.

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