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What makes a Mac voice assistant private?

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A voice assistant can run in a native Mac window and still send audio, prompts, or memory somewhere else. I do not treat "private" as a model label. I treat it as a property of the entire data path. That path includes audio capture, transcription, planning, speech generation, retained history, perm…

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