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Google's new voice recognition system works instantly and offline (if you have a Pixel) (TechCrunch, March 12, 2019)
TechCrunch, 2019
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- What it is
- A March 2019 TechCrunch report on Google's new on-device speech recognizer, which the article says works offline, only on Pixel phones and only in American English at launch.
- How much weight it carries
- A major technology news site reporting the launch the day it was announced. It describes the 2019 launch only: the Pixel and English limits are dated and were later expanded, so they do not describe current Gboard.
Facts taken from this source
- At its March 2019 launch, Google's offline speech recognizer ran only on Pixel phones and only in American English.
“it only works on Pixels ... it only works in American English” (Article body)