Horseshit. My Pentium 133 could do it in 1997.
The send-to-the-cloud thing just exists because tech companies have a pathological fetish for recording, analyzing, and storing every single little thing you say and do and then trying to sell it to advertisers. Or train AIās with it these days, or whatever the fuck else. The only marginal benefit you might get is that they can update their algorithms server side and not have to update your car or other device. But the technology has been mature for literal decades, so I donāt think thatās terribly important.
That said, I still donāt want my car to have voice control. Itās just as stupid as a concept as making everything touchscreen.
Speech to text is one thing. Actually understanding all the intricate details and variations of language is incredibly difficult. Itās good enough for some stuff, but Iāve yet to see a system a system thatās reliable enough for day to day use, especially in a car.
Scenarios like this happens way too often:
āSet alarm for fifteen minutesā
āOk, setting alarm fifty minutes from nowā
āNo! FIFTEEN minutesā
āIām sorry, I donāt understand what you meanā
āRemove old alarm and set it to fifteen minutes insteadā
āPlaying song on Spotifyā¦ā
