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Firefox Voice
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Re: Firefox Voice
#82I've looked into open source voice assistants before. I found mycroft, Jarvis and a few others, but either got bogged down in dependencies or configuration. Many supported shipping your data to Google or Amazon if you configured it, or an open source voice recognition tool. I hate this idea that our voice has to be shipped somewhere to be processed. I remember a lot of the speech-to-text tools in the early 2000s were…
That is what they are working on, but that needs high-quality training data: https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/en
This is just another way of gathering that data. (If consented to.)
Re: Firefox Voice
#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
So, because Firefox on your phone doesn't have X, you deleted it everywhere and installed a browser that... also doesn't have X? FWIW This is one of the symmetries when we have to do policy shifts like TLS 1.0 deprecation. Even though every major browser will implement the policy and has announced that, some fraction of users will feel "betrayed" and switch from one browser implementing the policy to another browser…
> So, because Firefox on your phone doesn't have X, you deleted it everywhere and installed a browser that... also doesn't have X? No, because Firefox on my phone has removed X, I'm switchting to a browser that's getting X, and where the time-line isn't "we dunno lul". Maybe Brave doesn't hit their timeline, but Mozilla doesn't have one and I have no idea when my stuff will start working again. Until Brave Mobile has…
Except that FF is also getting the feature - according to their timeline around Q4 20 - Q1 21.
As many have pointed out, Mozilla updated your glitchy and slow browser with a newer and faster one that unfortunately still isn't at feature parity. They didn't remove the feature in the sense that they abandoned it, it was simply a regression that came with an update they considered more important. I agree it was way too soon to push Fenix to stable users, but switching to fancy Chrome just because of one FF regression that will be fixed seems a bit much.
Re: Firefox Voice
#84I've looked into open source voice assistants before. I found mycroft, Jarvis and a few others, but either got bogged down in dependencies or configuration. Many supported shipping your data to Google or Amazon if you configured it, or an open source voice recognition tool. I hate this idea that our voice has to be shipped somewhere to be processed. I remember a lot of the speech-to-text tools in the early 2000s were…
Even Apple, with its focus on privacy and local AI, needs an internet connection for most Siri queries.
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#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 plugin…
I want hands free for CAD. Imagine being able to vocalise and build a model. I did have a HN user who said they be happy to collaborate with me to build it but I dropped the ball and have since killed that email address.
If you manage to get into the GPT-3 beta, I'd love to work on that with you :D.
For simple models, English -> OpenSCAD sounds like it's doable given the things I've seen on Twitter and for normal modeling, GPT-3 would probably make an excellent intent recognizer for voice commands.
Re: Firefox Voice
#86I've looked into open source voice assistants before. I found mycroft, Jarvis and a few others, but either got bogged down in dependencies or configuration. Many supported shipping your data to Google or Amazon if you configured it, or an open source voice recognition tool. I hate this idea that our voice has to be shipped somewhere to be processed. I remember a lot of the speech-to-text tools in the early 2000s were…
Try Nuance Dragon options (no affiliation, just a good tool). They have software that works offline, without cloud. They have a very competitive voice recognition quality for the supported languages. There are some products that are explicitly cloud-based (like mobile ones), but there are also desktop versions that do all the processing, inferring and even learning of your voice and new dictionaries on your local machine. You will need a somewhat powerful PC, but nothing crazy.
(PS but to be fair, it's a dictation tool with some extra commands, even if a very good one. It is not really a voice assistant. But I'm not sure if that is harder or easier to do. There are open-source offline assistant tools too that work quite well already, because once you have a set of pre-determined phrases/formulas, they are much easier to parse.)
Re: Firefox Voice
#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
Presumably the reason they want you to opt-in to saving recordings is so they can train DeepSpeech.
But DeepSpeech has already been trained with millions of data samples! I'd feel way better about it if they went for a slightly worse DeepSpeech based implementation, but kept it working in the free software spirit they have been known about for many years. Also, for desktop devices inference on DeepSpeech is cheap enough, so they could even go the extra mile and work on some Wasm magic to get offline recognition. Th…
The audio Mozilla DeepSpeech is trained on is not very large (about 2000 hours) or diverse (eg: mostly native American English Male voices) and has very little ability to handle noise, accents or other errata.
Comparatively, Baidu had 5000 hours of English to train their versions of DeepSpeech and DeepSpeech2 on, and thus had better results years ago. Google, Microsoft, IBM and other companies have users providing more audio samples on a daily basis, enabling much better quality speech to text.
Mozilla's Common Voice project only has 1492hrs of validated English currently: https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/en/datasets
Re: Firefox Voice
#88I've looked into open source voice assistants before. I found mycroft, Jarvis and a few others, but either got bogged down in dependencies or configuration. Many supported shipping your data to Google or Amazon if you configured it, or an open source voice recognition tool. I hate this idea that our voice has to be shipped somewhere to be processed. I remember a lot of the speech-to-text tools in the early 2000s were…
That is what they are working on, but that needs high-quality training data: https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/en This is just another way of gathering that data. (If consented to.)
Mozilla DeepSpeech is trained on about 2000 hours of audio that is mostly spoken by American males. It has little ability to handle noise or accents and has a 5.97% Word Error Rate on LibriVox (which is noiseless, plain spoken english).
Meanwhile, Google, Microsoft & IBM have tons of fresh audio coming in constantly to use in augmenting their models.
Baidu was able to build a competitive English Speech to Text model with 5000 hours of quality audio to train against.
Mozilla did create Common Voice to address this serious data gap, but it has only collected 1492hrs of validated English audio: https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/en/datasets
Re: Firefox Voice
#89I'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
Mozilla DeepSpeech is rapidly maturing, but it needs thousands of hours of validated audio data to train each language. Its a feat that with only 2000 hours of audio they can achieve a 5.97% word error rate.
Baidu had 5000 hours of audio data to train their DeepSpeech and DeepSpeech 2 models, meanwhile Google, Microsoft & IBM have people constantly giving them fresh audio to train and validate their models with.
Firefox Voice data should help rapidly expand the Common Voice audio corpus beyond the 1492hrs it currently contains: https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/en/datasets
Re: Firefox Voice
#90You should try rhasspy. It's open source. It respects your privacy by using offline services. Fully customizable (each service can be replaced by another) All the services are containerized for easy installation and is available for several architectures such as arm ( on a raspberry pi). There is even n Option to use Mozilla deepspeech tts service.