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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Not defending what P.K. said or recommends, but:</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">AI, including speech recognition, requires a lot of computing power, either CPU or GPU, is done locally on your own computer. The alternative is to do what nearly everyone from Microsoft to Google to Apple to Amazon does -- perform most of the computations in the Cloud or on remote servers, and use the results on the local device. In fact, this is the only way to get decent speech to text on a phone. </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">So what Apple may be doing is to leverage remote servers for the processing, freeing up the local computer to do other tasks. This would account for Nancy's discovery that everything you say is sent to Apple for "storage". This is possibly no more permanent than Amazon's Alexa sending your speech to Amazon's servers for "storage". In the case of Alexa, the storage is temporary, though some speech is retained for training purposes. </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">If you are not comfortable with remote processing, probably speech recognition is not for you. But it is difficult to avoid voice commands these days, and becoming increasingly difficult to avoid all kinds of AI which is showing up in our devices, including TVs, cars and home assistants. </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">-- Bob Primak </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div><br></div>
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On Saturday, February 10, 2024 at 11:18:22 AM EST, Slater Nancy via LCTG <lctg@lists.toku.us> wrote:
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<div><div dir="ltr">P. K., this dictation system wants to send everything you say to Apple, for “storage.” Are you comfortable with that? I’m not sure that I am.<br clear="none">Nancy<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> On Feb 9, 2024, at 4:35 PM, PK Shiu via LCTG <<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:lctg@lists.toku.us" href="mailto:lctg@lists.toku.us">lctg@lists.toku.us</a>> wrote:<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> The built-in dictation available on Macintosh. OS X works very well. It is built-in. I am in fact using it to type this email right now. The only annoying thing is I cannot figure out how to do things like backspace or delete wrong text however it is smart enough to recognize things like insert a :-) so I actually said smiley and then the word face and it will insert the emoji instead check it out. If you have a Mac, it is under settings and dictation.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> P.K.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> ===============================================<br clear="none">> ::The Lexington Computer and Technology Group Mailing List::<br clear="none">> Reply goes to sender only; Reply All to send to list.<br clear="none">> Send to the list: <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:LCTG@lists.toku.us" href="mailto:LCTG@lists.toku.us">LCTG@lists.toku.us</a> Message archives: <a shape="rect" href="http://lists.toku.us/pipermail/lctg-toku.us/" target="_blank">http://lists.toku.us/pipermail/lctg-toku.us/</a><br clear="none">> To subscribe: email <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:lctg-subscribe@toku.us" href="mailto:lctg-subscribe@toku.us">lctg-subscribe@toku.us</a> To unsubscribe: email <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:lctg-unsubscribe@toku.us" href="mailto:lctg-unsubscribe@toku.us">lctg-unsubscribe@toku.us</a><br clear="none">> Future and Past meeting information: <a shape="rect" href="http://LCTG.toku.us" target="_blank">http://LCTG.toku.us</a><br clear="none">> List information: <a shape="rect" href="http://lists.toku.us/listinfo.cgi/lctg-toku.us" target="_blank">http://lists.toku.us/listinfo.cgi/lctg-toku.us</a><br clear="none">> This message was sent to <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:nslater@rcn.com." href="mailto:nslater@rcn.com.">nslater@rcn.com.</a><br clear="none">> Set your list options: <a shape="rect" href="http://lists.toku.us/options.cgi/lctg-toku.us/nslater@rcn.com" target="_blank">http://lists.toku.us/options.cgi/lctg-toku.us/nslater@rcn.com</a><div class="yqt4365001243" id="yqtfd13163"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">===============================================<br clear="none">::The Lexington Computer and Technology Group Mailing List::<br clear="none">Reply goes to sender only; Reply All to send to list.<br clear="none">Send to the list: <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:LCTG@lists.toku.us" href="mailto:LCTG@lists.toku.us">LCTG@lists.toku.us</a> Message archives: <a shape="rect" href="http://lists.toku.us/pipermail/lctg-toku.us/" target="_blank">http://lists.toku.us/pipermail/lctg-toku.us/</a><br clear="none">To subscribe: email <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:lctg-subscribe@toku.us" href="mailto:lctg-subscribe@toku.us">lctg-subscribe@toku.us</a> To unsubscribe: email <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:lctg-unsubscribe@toku.us" href="mailto:lctg-unsubscribe@toku.us">lctg-unsubscribe@toku.us</a><br clear="none">Future and Past meeting information: <a shape="rect" href="http://LCTG.toku.us" target="_blank">http://LCTG.toku.us</a><br clear="none">List information: <a shape="rect" href="http://lists.toku.us/listinfo.cgi/lctg-toku.us" target="_blank">http://lists.toku.us/listinfo.cgi/lctg-toku.us</a><br clear="none">This message was sent to <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:bobprimak@yahoo.com." href="mailto:bobprimak@yahoo.com.">bobprimak@yahoo.com.</a><br clear="none">Set your list options: <a shape="rect" href="http://lists.toku.us/options.cgi/lctg-toku.us/bobprimak@yahoo.com" target="_blank">http://lists.toku.us/options.cgi/lctg-toku.us/bobprimak@yahoo.com</a><br clear="none"></div></div></div>
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