Why do voice apps need internet?

[Guest EazyDuz]

Such as speaking a text message or voice dialer. Why on earth does that need internet to work?

Thanks

[Guest JimJam707]

Such as speaking a text message or voice dialer. Why on earth does that need internet to work?

Thanks

You talk to it, they send your voice to google over the internet, it comes back, good times.

[Guest Mushroom_Lord]

Because of the way it works:

It is trying to match the sound waves to ones it can recognize. These are stored on its server.

So its:

Voice into phone>Recording to server>server identifies voice>Phone gathers data from server.

A similar technique is used for text to speech. Also, as the methods used both take up a lot of space and possibly computing power, Google also probably doesn't want anyone "copying" their voice engine.

It would be impractical to try and store an entire library on your phone.

[Guest mickey megabyte]

+1

our phones aren't clever enough or don't have large enough storage to translate our words into text.

the google servers do the hard work - surprisingly quickly and surprisingly well.

[Guest EazyDuz]

ah fair enough. Yea it seems fairly accurate with me, though sometimes only practical in a quiet room by yourself.