Amazon to kill off local Alexa processing, all voice requests shipped to the cloud
Come March 28, those who opted to have their voice commands for Amazon's AI assistant Alexa processed locally on their Echo devices will lose that option, with all spoken requests pushed to the cloud for analysis.
Amazon hasn't formally announced the change, and the help page for the feature still makes no mention of the March 28 deprecation. But the internet souk confirmed to The Register that emails to users about the update, which caused a stir on social media over the weekend, are indeed leg...
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