New Apple research could unlock fast-talking Siri

Macworld

Hopes for a more accurate and functional Siri voice assistant currently lean heavily on the short-term fix: Apple’s recently announced partnership with Google to use the latter’s Gemini tech to improve its own AI offerings. But in the longer term, a new research paper offers a method that could allow Apple to make Siri faster all by itself.

The paper, Principled Coarse-Grained Acceptance for Speculative Decoding in Speech, was written by five researchers working...