Mozilla Common Voice Updates Will Help Train the 'Hey Firefox' Wakeword For Voice-Based Web Browsing (venturebeat.com) 49
Mozilla today released the latest version of Common Voice, its open source collection of transcribed voice data for startups, researchers, and hobbyists to build voice-enabled apps, services, and devices. Common Voice now contains over 7,226 total hours of contributed voice data in 54 different languages, up from 1,400 hours across 18 languages in February 2019. From a report: Common Voice consists not only of voice snippets, but of voluntarily contributed metadata useful for training speech engines, like speakers' ages, sex, and accents. It's designed to be integrated with DeepSpeech, a suite of open source speech-to-text, text-to-speech engines, and trained models maintained by Mozilla's Machine Learning Group. Collecting the over 5.5 million clips in Common Voice required a lot of legwork, namely because the prompts on the Common Voice website had to be translated into each language. Still, 5,591 of the 7,226 hours have been confirmed valid by the project's contributors so far. And according to Mozilla, five languages in Common Voice -- English, German, French, Italian, and Spanish -- now have over 5,000 unique speakers, while seven languages -- English, German, French, Kabyle, Catalan, Spanish, and Kinyarwandan -- have over 500 recorded hours.
Let me guess (Score:3)
The Debian version will reply to "Hey GNU Icecat", but only if you say GNU, not just "Hey Icecat".
Re: Let me guess (Score:2)
"Hey GNU" wouls actually be nice: https://youtu.be/7ks80McKhss [youtu.be]
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Didn't Debian revert the names back to the originals?
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The Debian version will reply to "Hey GNU Icecat", but only if you say GNU, not just "Hey Icecat".
No it won't; it'll only respond if you expand the acronym. Completely.
Re:how about "Fuck off" (Score:4, Insightful)
I don't mind voice features. I just don't want it cloud based. When they get voice commands that are LOCAL ONLY, I will start to get interested in talking to my devices and apps.
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Probably Mozilla doesn't have the resources to make that happen but it can be done
Re: how about "Fuck off" (Score:1)
They exist: https://mycroft.ai/ [mycroft.ai]
the feature no one asked for (Score:1)
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It's the me-too syndrome. The big boys have "Hey Google", "Hey Alexia", "Hey Siri". So Mozilla had to have their "Hey" bullshit too. That's what happens when you're insecure about your future...
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It's the me-too syndrome. The big boys have "Hey Google", "Hey Alexia", "Hey Siri". So Mozilla had to have their "Hey" bullshit too. That's what happens when you're insecure about your future...
I've been, by told people who decided their smartphone was all the computer needed, voice is convenient, and easier to use than the tiny virtual keyboards smartphones have. Given there are more and more people who are on the smartphone-only path, voice has become a must-have. If Mozilla wants to be part of the mobile computing landscape, they need voice.
(Qualifier: I don't use voice features, and am not a fan. By choice, I do not own a smartphone either)
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To become the ultimate hands free porn browser.
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Hey firefox give me black woman gets nailed in cunt by giant dildo.
"Black man gets nails in cock with giant dog doo."
Re: the feature no one asked for (Score:1)
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So you can run it on Firefox OS on your Firefox phone. Should we work on being faster and better than Chrome? Nah fuck that let's work on a new screenshot feature.
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Someone hasn't been paying attention...
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the feature no one asked for
The feature nobody asked for aka the feature that their major competitors have and which is very popular. Seriously, why are Mozilla haters so keen on denying observable reality?
Why would they invest so much of their resources in this gimmicky feature?
Voice activation is (a) popular and (b) here to stay. Given that, a version exists which isn't a privacy nightmare. If Mozilla don't offer what their competitors do then the large number of people who want those features will instea
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Agreed. When they bought Pocket I resolved not to give them money. They spent $20M on that garbage
Voice recognition is not the browser's job. That should be a separate service entirely.
The Mozilla foundation should work on fixing the browser, not making it play stupid games.
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Voice recognition is not the browser's job.
That's right: the browser's job today is to be a fucking full-blown OS. Different thing...
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Agreed. When they bought Pocket I resolved not to give them money. They spent $20M on that garbage
Voice recognition is not the browser's job. That should be a separate service entirely.
The Mozilla foundation should work on fixing the browser, not making it play stupid games.
They bought that shit? I guess that's why they tried to poorly integrate it into the browser. I remember having to about:config remove all evidence of that crap, but just figured they were being dumb about it.
Re: STOP DONATING (Score:2)
Yeah, a Google monopoly. How nice... --.--
The problem is that we need a proper third alternative.
And that will only happen, if somebody develops something that is both so innovative that is breaks the box (that the others think inside), and that does NOT need to to run behind Google's flood of kitchen sinks that they try to kill every other browser with.
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Yeah, a Google monopoly. How nice... --.--
The problem is that we need a proper third alternative.
And that will only happen, if somebody develops something that is both so innovative that is breaks the box (that the others think inside), and that does NOT need to to run behind Google's flood of kitchen sinks that they try to kill every other browser with.
I don't think it would need to be all that amazing to be honest. Apple keeps building the walls to their garden higher, and Google has been doing everything they can to shoot themselves in the foot over in their garden across the street.
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It made sense, as a majority of their users at the time used it. I didn't use it before, but now I use it regularly on mobile. It's been a net positive for me.
I almost read "Wokeword". (Score:2)
Now THAT would be today's Mozilla! :)
But in general: If it does not stay on my box, fuck off and die, you criminal data kraken!
Big question... (Score:2)
Don't shoot, I am being sarcastic.
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I tried pocket out of spite because so many idiots here were ragging on it. Turns out I like it, so now I use it a bunch.
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At least Mozilla found a project that will have fewer users than Edge!
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Was there some kind of demand for this that I've missed? Who had the idea that this is what Firefox needed? Firefox has a ton of problems right now, and voice control isn't one of them. Redirect resources away from this and fix Firefox!
Oh, I don't know about that. If they weren't off screwing around with voice control nobody cares about, they might be redesigning the browser to imitate Edge or Chrome more. We certainly don't want them actually working on the core product too much anymore, given how they've shown that they have zero clue.
Hearing in the noise (Score:2)
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Sounds like you've been listening to recordings of my interactions with Siri. If I day goes by where I haven't raged at Siri for completely fucking things up it's probably because I'm in a hospital bed somewhere in a coma.
Odd how the transcription on the phone screen is mostly-right but what Siri "hears" after talking to Apple's online service is completely wrong.
When I'm asking for directions to an address a couple of suburbs over why in the hell would you route me to address on an entirely different conti
Hey Firefox (Score:3)
Hey Firefox, can you fix the "never autoplay media" option in the menu that doesn't work? How about the "only use address bar for URLs" setting that doesn't work? ... Can we at least have a working variable in about:config for these?
Wow so now Firefox is (Score:2)
Just my 2 cents
This is badly needed (Score:2)
The voice recognition really needs to be happening locally. The first passable form of voice recognition [wikipedia.org] (running locally) came out over 20 years ago. So without question, modern computers have enough processing power to do voice recognition locally. Th
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Old wisdom was that you could skip training if the vocab was only around 10 or 20 words, but for general speech you'd need to train the system on your voice.
I had local speech recognition on my 66mhz IBM Aptiva with 8mb ram running Windows 3.1 26 years ago. It wasn't great by today's standards, and training took more than 20 minutes, but it worked.
The attraction to "cloud" voice recognition was that you could skip the training step. The privacy issues be damned. Never mind that Siri was secretly playing y
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Android 10 is supposed to have on-device speech recognition. I haven't used it yet, though. The only device I have 10 on is a Nexus 7 running Lineage whatever. I suppose I should flash my X4 as well, though.
Re: This is badly needed (Score:2)
I don't plug in my speakers anymore (Score:2)
I got so damned tired of web browsing sounding as irritating as OTA TV that I finally said f* it and unplugged them.
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Unplug the microphone as well? Camera? You could be giving someone a show out there.
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Have never used a microphone or camera with this computer.
Priorities (Score:2)
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