You misunderstand what the internet connection is for.
Right now most machine learning models run on server farms and your voice snppet is sent to the server, where the model processes it. They then send the interpretation back
"Local model" means the voice snippet is processed on your device. Never beamed off to a server farm.
The interpretation might be:
Action: internetSearch
QueryString: movie times for "Avengers" [near me || {userPreferences.movieTheater}]
UseLocation: true
Which then kicks off whatever process Siri has for handling internet search actions
"Local model" means the voice snippet is processed on your device. Never beamed off to a server farm.
The interpretation might be:
Which then kicks off whatever process Siri has for handling internet search actions