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Why Edge Computing Is Reshaping Real-Time Voice Assistants
Voice assistants like Siri and Alexa send your audio to the cloud, wait for a response, and hope the latency is tolerable. But a new generation of edge-native voice models can process speech entirely on device, with wake-word detection, transcription, and even simple intent parsing happening locally. In this episode, Lucas and Luna examine a specific case: how a smart-speaker manufacturer cut response latency from 2.1 seconds to under 300 milliseconds by running a compressed neural network on an edge chip. They discuss the trade-offs in model accuracy, the role of CDN-style updates for…
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