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Mozilla's "Common Voice": Voice Recognition Without Google, Amazon, Baidu, Apple, Microsoft, etc.

posted by martyb on Thursday July 20 2017, @08:02AM   Printer-friendly
from the speak-up! dept.

takyon writes:

Mozilla wants to crowdsource thousands of hours of voice recordings for an open source voice recognition engine:

The Mozilla Foundation launched "Common Voice," which is a crowdsourced initiative to build an open source data set for voice recognition applications.

Many technology companies believe that voice control will be embedded into most devices in the future. This is why Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Baidu, and others are all trying to put their own voice-controlled artificial intelligence assistants into as many devices as they can and as fast as they can, in order to gain market share before the competition.

The problem with this, according to Mozilla, is that voice controlled technologies could end up being dominated by proprietary technology and data sets, which aren't made available to startups and academics. As some large companies already benefit from billion-dollar revenues, it could later become too difficult for startups to catch up with the big players. Though[sic] Common Voice, Mozilla aims to democratize voice recognition technology.

You could use this to build (the easy part of) a personal assistant that either does not use the cloud, or does so on your terms.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by driverless on Thursday July 20 2017, @12:03PM (3 children)

    by driverless (4770) on Thursday July 20 2017, @12:03PM (#541885)

    Sure, but in this case it's another pointless adventure by an organisation that has completely lost its way. It's just another thing to burn up resources on their way to irrelevance as they ignore their core products, or at least ignore what made their core products popular in the first place.

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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 20 2017, @01:41PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 20 2017, @01:41PM (#541902)

    Yep. Mozilla fired Brendan Eich to appease a bunch of cucked beta gay transsexual feminist lesbian Muslim black Mexican liberal commies with green mohawks. (*checks to see if anything can be added to that list*)

    Everything they do is bad now! They rooned it! They roon everything!

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 20 2017, @02:44PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 20 2017, @02:44PM (#541916)

      Go back to voat, bro.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 20 2017, @05:33PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 20 2017, @05:33PM (#541985)

        Get a sarcasm meter brah