Comment on Alexa Is in Millions of Households—and Amazon Is Losing Billions
Womble@lemmy.world 5 months agoIt doesn’t even have to be that much. Obviously these devices can to sound to text conversion, that’s how they interpret commands. That can convert hours of stored conversation to text, zipped up and sent as a few kilobytes along with the next network request it makes for a legit purpose.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Do you really think one of those cheap little nuggets has the computing power to do that? The only thing it really does locally is listen to the wake word, everything else, including audio, it sends off to the Zon.
No way is it sitting there converting everything it hears to text.
n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
If my cheap ass $250 cad phone can do it locally I’m sure the echo can too