FAfabrice_d·Aug 1, 2017
Note that Voice Fill is actually a WebExtension : https://github.com/mozilla/speaktome
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voicefill
A WebExtension To Add Speech To Text Support to Web Pages
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A WebExtension To Add Speech To Text Support to Web Pages
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2 sourcesSome more information in the official blog post: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/08/01/new-test-pilot-expe...
I was especially interested in the Voice Fill (speech recognition) technology. Landing page: https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/voice-fill
It seems the project is here: https://github.com/mozilla/speaktome/
This seems as if it actually is a webservice. From the code (https://github.com/mozilla/speaktome/blob/master/extension/c...), I see: const STT_SERVER_URL = "https://speaktome.services.mozilla.com";
Actually, I think this can be very easily done fully client-side, with good accuracy. Even on Android, the voice recognition can run client-side / offline.
I wonder if the project is in any way related to their DeepSpeech project (https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech). Maybe they use DeepSpeech on the server-side? At some
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other place they call it Pipsqueak, not sure if this is yet something else.
And maybe also related is their common voice project (https://voice.mozilla.org/). Recent discussion here on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14794654).
Some more information also here: https://research.mozilla.org/machine-learning/