I guess Mozilla's own speech to text (https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech) isn't good enough, so they have to use Google's?
Firefox Voice
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#12I've been working on this exact thing for Chrome the last 3 years: https://www.lipsurf.com Anyone can make an open source plugin for it to do anything with voice (https://github.com/LipSurf/plugins)
I've wanted to port it to Firefox, but the HTML5 SpeechRecognition API (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/SpeechRecog...) is still not available. Why not just make the API available and leave this in addon territory for all developers?
Re: Firefox Voice
#13Is there a preference to have text to speech via another service provider?
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#14Speech to text in the cloud is a hard no from me. Especially if it’s Google’s speech to text.
Don't worry, it says they asked Google to not save everyone's voices! On a serious note, it does bother me how much Mozilla constantly uses Google, even when they have their own solutions They could easily choose not to, especially with their massive budget, but often don't. They have their own Voice API, but they use Google's. They have their own location API, but they use Google's ('use my location' sends your info…
Agree, though Maybe google is giving them free/barter compute credits?
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#15Google charges 2.4 cents per minute for STT so there's no way Mozilla could afford to offer this service if it actually got popular. I mean, that obviously won't be an issue, but still.
Re: Firefox Voice
#16I've been working on this exact thing for Chrome the last 3 years: https://www.lipsurf.com Anyone can make an open source plugin for it to do anything with voice ( https://github.com/LipSurf/plugins ) I've wanted to port it to Firefox, but the HTML5 SpeechRecognition API ( https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/SpeechRecog... ) is still not available. Why not just make the API available and leave this in ad…
> Available as an extension for Firefox on desktop / laptop
According to article, Firefox is offering this through an addon... obviously not using the SpeechRecognition API, however.
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#17Google charges 2.4 cents per minute for STT so there's no way Mozilla could afford to offer this service if it actually got popular. I mean, that obviously won't be an issue, but still.
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#18I've been working on this exact thing for Chrome the last 3 years: https://www.lipsurf.com Anyone can make an open source plugin for it to do anything with voice ( https://github.com/LipSurf/plugins ) I've wanted to port it to Firefox, but the HTML5 SpeechRecognition API ( https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/SpeechRecog... ) is still not available. Why not just make the API available and leave this in ad…
"On some browsers, like Chrome, using Speech Recognition on a web page involves a server-based recognition engine. Your audio is sent to a web service for recognition processing, so it won't work offline."
Seems like the answer for why the API isn't in Firefox. It's also not standardized, and is prefixed, so...
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#19Google charges 2.4 cents per minute for STT so there's no way Mozilla could afford to offer this service if it actually got popular. I mean, that obviously won't be an issue, but still.
Maybe the long-term plan is to run the trained model locally?
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#20I guess Mozilla's own speech to text ( https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech ) isn't good enough, so they have to use Google's?
Presumably the reason they want you to opt-in to saving recordings is so they can train DeepSpeech.