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posted by janrinok on Friday June 15 2018, @08:23PM   Printer-friendly
from the maybe-listening-to-their-users-again dept.

Mozilla may be working on a voice-controlled browser

Mozilla may be working on a voice-controlled platform of its own. A listing for an all-hands internal meeting appeared about what seems like a new project: Scout. "With the Scout app, we start to explore browsing and consuming content with voice," it read. It's very unclear what the platform may or may not end up doing, as the meeting is focused on technical requirements for a "voice browser" that would, as a stated example, be able to read users an article about polar bears.

[...] CNET interpreted Scout to be a new voice-controlled web browser. With Google, Apple, Amazon and Microsoft falling over themselves refining their voice assistant technology (with Facebook not far behind), it's unsurprising that Mozilla would join the fray. Given the company's decades of web platform experience, a browser is surely simpler to implement than a new proprietary speaker. Plus, vocal navigation through a browser setup is probably easier for the average person to grasp.

So that's why they needed Common Voice.

Related: Mozilla's Common Voice Collecting French, German, and Welsh Samples, Prepping 40 More Languages


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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Friday June 15 2018, @08:46PM (4 children)

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Friday June 15 2018, @08:46PM (#693699) Journal

    That could be averted by wearing headphones, which are pretty much always plugged into my laptop. Or by analyzing the sound. Or by running an adblocker.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday June 15 2018, @08:54PM (3 children)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Friday June 15 2018, @08:54PM (#693704) Journal

    We're talking about the average user here, not people like us.

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    • (Score: 2) by VLM on Friday June 15 2018, @09:01PM

      by VLM (445) on Friday June 15 2018, @09:01PM (#693709)

      Sorta-normies rick-rolled my Alexa on me, which was at least kinda funny. That's how old Alexa is, she's been around since before rick rolling became retro. Its gonna be an issue...

      Bad ideas and the future are unevenly distributed, so someones vaporware that might roll out in five years was already a shitty product somewhere else five years ago.

      None the less we can all pretend to be surprised in 2025 when someone rick rolls my Firefox, assuming Mozilla and Firefox are still around in 2025, LOL.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 16 2018, @04:32AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 16 2018, @04:32AM (#693850)

      haha "people like us" and then you get a VLM followup! On topic at least.

      • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday June 16 2018, @02:46PM

        by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Saturday June 16 2018, @02:46PM (#693952) Journal

        VLM knows his stuff when it comes to computers. It's just that he's not so good dealing with anything that requires a conscience, that's all. INT and WIS are separate dice, remember?

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