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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: 2) by maxwell demon on Saturday June 16 2018, @11:47AM (1 child)
"Alexa, do your homework. Now!" :-)
(I wonder what Alexa would answer on that one …)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Monday June 18 2018, @06:35PM
She disturbingly good at doing elementary school kid homework, as my kids have discovered. One you go far enough in school to reach the "show your work" stage she's merely useful for checking answers.