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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
(Score: 1, Funny) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday June 16 2018, @01:03AM (2 children)
We also saw that the two demo voices were of a ditzy bimbo and hipster faggot. You can't expect Google to convincingly synthesize other voices when all you have are ditzy boss-fucking bimbos and hipster faggots working there.
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday June 16 2018, @01:05AM
OK, Glass! [wikialpha.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 16 2018, @01:40PM
They also have in the works a 60 year old CXO who just put on a leather jacket for the first time, took off his glasses and is squinting at a prompter trying to read kewl-speak to a crowd of employees.