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Krrishdhaneja:
… why …
opened 07:45AM - 16 Sep 20 UTC
… no explanation for the decommissioning. I can guess a reason, but I’d prefer the explanation to come from Mozilla.
Primarily economics, I guess. Plus maybe logistics, given COVID-19 restrictions.
@caitlin please, can someone at Mozilla confirm?
In any case:
committed 07:20PM - 18 Aug 20 UTC
… Mozilla has realigned its priorities , and Firefox Voice will no longer be supported by Mozilla. The Firefox Voice team will be going to new things, no longer with Mozilla. …
Changing World, Changing Mozilla - The Mozilla Blog (2020-08-11)
New Test Pilot Experiments Available Today - The Mozilla Blog (2017-08-01)
This targeted data collection will immediately benefit two collaborations: the first being with Mozilla Fellow, Josh Meyer, and the second being our teammates creating Firefox Voice .
Part of Josh’s work is to discover how much data is needed to train a machine learning engine on a new voice recognition application in a new language. For this work, Josh is aiming to benchmark the accuracy of Mozilla’s open source voice recognition engine, Deep Speech , in multiple languages for a similar task. Josh and the Deep Speech team have identified that spoken digit recognition, as well as yes and no detection, are great candidates for this type of application testing. The only caveat is that they need data to run those tests and, to quote Josh himself; “That data doesn’t exist…yet.”
Similarly, our Mozilla colleagues in Emerging Technologies are testing and training wake word options for Firefox Voice. They reached out, curious if Common Voice communities could help generate voice data for Hey Firefox in multiple languages.
By adding your voice to this target segment, you’re contributing to the work Josh, Deep Speech, Firefox Voice and Common Voice are doing – not to mention the people who will download this target segment and build voice recognition applications in various languages.
Mozilla Org Wide Updates: Impacts on Common Voice - Common Voice - Mozilla Discourse
Test Pilot/Voice Fill category (archived)
Changing World, Changing Mozilla - The Mozilla Blog (2020-08-11)