• earphone843@sh.itjust.works
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      18 hours ago

      Did you read the article? Certain models have an option to handle recognition locally. That option is what’s going away.

      And no, a device doesn’t have to call home to recognize the wake word. The microphone loops on a local cache waiting for the wake word.