Apple will no longer send Siri requests to its servers, the company has announced, in a move to substantially speed up the voice assistant’s operation and address privacy concerns. The new feature comes two years after the Guardian revealed that Apple staff regularly heard confidential details while carrying out quality control for the feature. “With on-device speech recognition, the audio of users’ requests is processed right on their iPhone or iPad by default,” an Apple spokesperson said. “This addresses one of the biggest privacy concerns for voice assistants, which is unwanted audio recording. Apple is also introducing new privacy features across its products that could reignite a battle between the company and the advertising industry.

Source: The Guardian June 07, 2021 20:29 UTC