(Apologies for top-posting. I've asked the folks from ET to reply to the 
questions - Andre said he will respond soon! I was just helping them post the 
Intent, but I'm personally not involved with the implementation so I can't 
answer these really good questions... I'm just helping with our process stuff 
:)).

On Monday, October 7, 2019 at 8:32:18 PM UTC+11, Jonathan Kew wrote:
> On 07/10/2019 09:53, Henri Sivonen wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 5:00 AM Marcos Caceres <mcace...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> 
> >>   - speech is processed in our cloud servers, not on device.
> > 
> > What should one read to understand the issues that lead to this change?
> 
> +1. This seems like a change of direction which has *huge* implications 
> for issues like availability (the feature doesn't work if my device is 
> offline?), privacy (my device is sending microphone input to the 
> cloud?), and cost (how much of my expensive metered data does this 
> gobble up?) that need to be openly considered and discussed.
> 
> The original "Intent to prototype" seemed to be about an entirely 
> device-local feature, which means it had fundamentally different 
> characteristics.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> JK

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