Hey Cortana! High CPU usage

[crookedmember]

Bought an acer Swift laptop to use as a travel computer. Awesome little machine.

Poking in the task manager, I find a process called "Windows Audio Device Graph Isolation" is constantly using 25-30% CPU and a large chunk of memory.

Turns out if you have "Hey Cortana!" switched on, it uses a pile of resources just listening and waiting for someone to say "Hey Cortana!"

Turned it off and WADGI now running at 0%.

Good job, Microsoft! Once again I'm reminded why my main lappy is a MacBook Pro.

[Bsuds]

Turns out if you have "Hey Cortana!" switched on, it uses a pile of resources just listening and waiting for someone to say "Hey Cortana!"

Yup and not an issue for me as I have never enabled Cortana.

Does your Mac not have Siri?

[Bsuds]

From Googling Siri and Macs I see many complaints about similar issues with them.

[crookedmember]

The mac has Siri, but cpu usage is listed at 0.0%, which is somewhat better than 25%.

[Bsuds]

Yup no problems there.

https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/71747

[Jlabute]

WADGI does the DSP Audio processing for Windows. I think there may be issues when 3rd party vendors install their extensions for additional effects or what ever else they do. I have no trouble with cortana. There could be many other things that could interfere with audio processing on any O/S. At least there are oogles of Windows techs around.

[crookedmember]

Yup no problems there.

https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/71747

That's IOS, which is iPhone.

Sometimes google isn't your friend.

[Bsuds]

My point was that Macs can have issues as well and are not perfect as some fanboys seem to think.

[TylerM4]

Good job, Microsoft! Once again I'm reminded why my main lappy is a MacBook Pro.

As others have pointed out - "Hey siri" uses as much CPU as "Hey cortana". 25% of CPU is not normal and I'm really surprised that you'd assume it was. You bias toward apple products has skewed your perception.

[Urban Cowboy]

Good job, Microsoft! Once again I'm reminded why my main lappy is a MacBook Pro.

As others have pointed out - "Hey siri" uses as much CPU as "Hey cortana". 25% of CPU is not normal and I'm really surprised that you'd assume it was. You bias toward apple products has skewed your perception.

Definitely not normal as I have Hey Cortana enabled and am NOT using 25% of CPU.

[samsquench07]

The thing about Cortana. She can’t understand anything anyway. So even 1mb is a waste of time

[Urban Cowboy]

The thing about Cortana. She can’t understand anything anyway. So even 1mb is a waste of time

True that. She is quite dense which gets old in a hurry.