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		DominikR on Oct 31, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google’s most advanced voice search has arrived on... Because you can do a local search offline. (at least on the Android version)

onemoreanimal on Oct 31, 2012 [–]

On Android, voice recognition is built-in to the OS. On iPhone, they don't have this luxury and the app is relatively small, so I'm thinking almost all of it is done on the server. A link to a Google source verifying this would be nice though.

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