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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 16 2018, @09:32AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 16 2018, @09:32AM (#693895)

    I'm really looking forward to this, specifically the part where I find the about:config code to disable it.

    Same goes for more or less anything added into Firefox in the past 5 years. Sure it takes a few weeks of trawling awful blogs without broken about:config and userChrome.css modifications (i.e. 75% of them - thanks Mozilla for keeping it a moving target!).

    Funnily enough, I also look forward to installing random "Apps" to replace the useful functionality that got removed.

    Life's so much more interesting with Firefox.

  • (Score: 2) by requerdanos on Saturday June 16 2018, @03:57PM

    by requerdanos (5997) Subscriber Badge on Saturday June 16 2018, @03:57PM (#693984) Journal

    I'm really looking forward to this, specifically the part where I find the about:config code to disable it.

    It's possible that as part of this same initiative, Mozilla is also working on removing about:config as a legacy interface.