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> The problem with Cortona and Siri is that they process everything on remote servers while it could easily be done on a local machine.

Please enlighten the HN crowd and provide a reference for this claim.

sorry I was thinking mostly about voice recognition... which would already be a big plus if it was done locally.

Are there any existing products comparable in quality and speed to Cortana/Siri that do all of the processing locally?

if they would open source them, then maybe....

... could easily be done on a local machine.

I think you're going to need to provide some evidence to support that. It is not intuitively obvious in the slightest, especially given how frequently Cortana/Siri/GoogleNow trip up even with a data center backing them.

Seriously, if processing locally was so easy but they still wanted to steal all your data, they would crunch it locally & give results, and silently ship off the recording to an archive in parallel. Local processing is cheaper for them (bandwidth, compute) and faster for you.