Voice browsing on Windows is exactly what I don't need. I'd have a lot of use for being able to search the internet by voice and have the browser read an article to me while my phone is mounted to my dashboard. Without having to configure my whole phone for visual impairment, that is.
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#32Mozilla needs to come more around to Apple's way of thinking. These things need to be done locally on the device, not farmed out to some cloud. Use the cloud (CDN) to deploy the software, but run the software locally.
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#33Opera had this a decade ago. RIP
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#35I'm sorry, but cloud based speech recognition in itself would already be a red flag, even if Mozilla was doing it in-house. Outsourcing it to Google though? I feel like a company as ostensibly privacy-focused as Mozilla should really know better by now...
They’re building their own open voice platform. Google speech to text is presumably for testing. > Note: In the future, we expect to enable Mozilla’s own technology for Speech-to-Text which enables us to stop using Google’s Speech-to-Text engine. edit: s/texting/testing
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#36I'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…
I built something like this 7 years ago, it's called Hands Free for Chrome, a now languishing project that I lost interest in a long time ago, unfortunately. It made the top 10 of HN back then though! My site's design is not nearly as nice as yours. https://www.handsfreechrome.com/ I just didn't get enough users or support to really care about it. But I wish you the best. It was an exciting thing to build and using i…
Never saw yours before, but I discovered "Handsfree for Web" a few months after I started - and thought he had ripped mine off. But I no longer think so. Yes, seems like many commands are the same. Shame that so much wheel reinvention is going on. One thing that makes LipSurf "special" is the deep integration with sites. I wanted to use Duolingo, Reddit, HN and some others more with voice - so they get special plugins. Doing Duolingo with voice is a game changer for language learning - and if it weren't for usecases like that I would have likely lost interest like you long ago.
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#37So let me get this straight. They break global keyboard shortcuts, which people could use to play/pause media on different websites three years ago:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1411795
and instead of fixing that, they introduce this shit? Fuck Mozilla. I am already using Waterfox, looks like that wont be changing any time soon.
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#39So do I yell out my password to log in to websites?
Mine's: "Get off my damn lawn". That way my neighbours aren't any the wiser.
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#40I'm sorry, but cloud based speech recognition in itself would already be a red flag, even if Mozilla was doing it in-house. Outsourcing it to Google though? I feel like a company as ostensibly privacy-focused as Mozilla should really know better by now...
Yeah, Mozilla is not what it used to be. I guess it's just wishful thinking that makes it so easy to forget.
They just pushed an update on android on me that disabled all addons except uBO because they don't support them yet, a few hours ago.
That was the last straw that broke the camels back for me, after using FF since 1.0. Just rm -rf'd my firefox profile on my desktop a few minutes ago.
I've defended them for a long time even if I didn't agree with everything they did, but they're so completely off the rails, enough is enough. Blink mono-culture it is then.