Dev builds fully offline Siri with on-device speech recognition running 2x faster on iPhone
jdluk87 · x · 2026-11-15
A developer says they built a version of Siri that works with no internet: speech recognition, language understanding and execution all run locally on the iPhone, with no server round trip, making it twice as fast. Apple never announced it, but Reddit users noticed the on-device behavior anyway — a notable demo of what on-device AI assistants can do.
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