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  • #11
    Originally posted by bug77 View Post
    So MDN gets the boot
    Nothing happened to MDN. It's even in the process of a major technology upgrade.

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    • #12
      Originally posted by _ONH_ View Post
      Somehow they need to find a revenue stream...
      They should contact some grants and funding specialists.

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      • #13
        Linux definitely needs a good universal speech recognition system. Its absence is one of the few things that prevent it from being a complete Windows replacement desktop OS.

        And in an unrelated note, after over a year I'm finally able to use Firefox as my default browser again! And, embarrassingly, as it turns out my problems with various dialogs and site logins appear to have been my fault. I had a bit of extra time today and decided to start with a clean profile and, viola!, all my problems disappeared. I'm old enough to know I should have tried that before, but I'm also lazy and didn't want to reenter all my credentials again

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        • #14
          Originally posted by elatllat View Post
          They should contact some grants and funding specialists.
          Good luck finding extra money floating around while the covid situation persists. Government certainly won't have money to spare, and companies are spending money to keep their businesses acceptable for the new regulations.

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          • #15
            Originally posted by Jaxad0127 View Post
            That's what CommonVoice is for. https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/
            Yeah, because that's also installed on like a billion devices, right?

            Originally posted by jntesteves View Post
            Nothing happened to MDN. It's even in the process of a major technology upgrade.
            You mean nothing besides the entire team being laid off, right? I think Mozilla committed to keeping the website up, but without timely updates its future is far from rosy.

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            • #16
              Originally posted by lyamc View Post

              Good luck finding extra money floating around while the covid situation persists. Government certainly won't have money to spare, and companies are spending money to keep their businesses acceptable for the new regulations.
              The US government alone spends something like $500 billion annually on grants.
              I know a grant writer and she said she has more work this year than last year.

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              • #17
                Originally posted by bug77 View Post

                Still doesn't yield something people want.
                Why do you claim nobody wants it? I beg to differ.

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                • #18
                  Originally posted by oleid View Post
                  Why do you claim nobody wants it? I beg to differ.
                  I mean compared to other things Mozilla has/had to offer.
                  And if you really want STT, Mozilla will never match other offers currently available, simply because they lack the training samples and the means to get them.

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                  • #19
                    Originally posted by bug77 View Post
                    Yeah, because that's also installed on like a billion devices, right?
                    It's not meant to? That's for training data to build software like DeepSpeech with and validate against. Anyone who wants to contribute data towards it can help improve the quality for their language by doing so, and the data IIRC is available for others to leverage too, not just Mozilla.

                    It's by no means going to match that of the proprietary products, but that's not unusual with open-source in that regard...? Could probably have another initiative that receives funds to acquire more contributions by those that don't want to contribute freely I guess as a workaround, but that requires money :P

                    Originally posted by bug77 View Post
                    You mean nothing besides the entire team being laid off, right? I think Mozilla committed to keeping the website up, but without timely updates its future is far from rosy.
                    I haven't heard about MDN issues like that, when did this happen? Pretty sure I contributed to MDN via Github a while back (nope, my bad that was caniuse with firefox support). Hopefully they can get some volunteer maintainers then and contributors can push updates? (not as good or as fast as it would have been prior but better than nothing)

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                    • #20
                      I think that voluntary data collection of both audio samples and verification alone are worthy of this project existing.

                      Or would you rather the “do it by default and get opt out later” approach?

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