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   From: arlen@arlen.com   
      
   New Google Android speech recognition works entirely offline   
   o Faster than those that use the Internet!   
      
   The entire voice-recognition process works _on_ the device!   
   o All by its itty bitty self!   
      
   Gboard recognizes each letter of the words you say as you say them   
   o Rather than recognizing phonemes!   
      
   References below..., dated today.   
      
   o An All-Neural On-Device Speech Recognizer, Tuesday, March 12, 2019   
       
      
   o Streaming End-to-end Speech Recognition For Mobile Devices   
       
      
   Caveats?   
      
   It's currently being rolled out to Pixel devices   
   o And it only works on the (Am) English Gboard keyboard app   
      
   It's 80MB too!    :)   
      
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