Compensating for hardware disparities when determining whether to offload assistant-related processing tasks from certain client devices

Abstract

Implementations set forth herein relate to off-loading, or temporarily ceasing such off-loading, computational tasks to a separate computing device based on a network metric(s) that is not limited to signal strength. Rather, a network metric for determining whether to continue relying on a network connection with a server computing device for certain computational tasks can be based on a current, or recent, interaction with the server computing device. In this way, an application executing at a computing device having a powerful antenna—but an otherwise limited network velocity, can determine to temporarily rely exclusively on local processing. For instance, an automated assistant can temporarily cease communicating audio data to a remote server computing device, during a dialog session, in response to determining a network metric fails to satisfy a threshold—even though there may appear to be adequate signal strength to effectively transmit the audio data.