macOS Monterrey: Voice Control uses a lot of CPU while idle waiting for voice input

[brosenz]

I activated Voice Control in Monterrey 12.3.1 and noticed a continued use of 30-50% of one of the Efficiency cores within the M1 Pro Max CPU, is this normal?

With all the processors, co-processors, ML processors, etc.inside the Apple Silicon, I would have expected that a Standby Voice Control, waiting for input, would have used hardware vs software, any previous experience? Thanks

 

[basher]

There is no such M1 processor. Are you referring to an M1 Pro or an M1 Max???

 

[brosenz]

There is no such M1 processor. Are you referring to an M1 Pro or an M1 Max???

M1 Max, maybe it was an initial setup? but I left it idle for 1 hour and was still using a lot of CPU

 

[asus389]

On my intel MBP it will initially shut off the fans to "listen" and then ramp them way up when processing the voice control/dictation. It's using cpu like this all the time?