The Common Voice project is a Mozilla effort meant to make speech recognition and voice-based AI more inclusive. Users donate their voice by sending in clips that, in turn, helps voice-based apps recognize a wider array of user voices. The team’s latest foray takes things to the next level with Spontaneous Speech. Learn more about it here.
We had the pleasure of sitting down with Coil CEO and Founder Stefan Thomas to hear his thoughts on the state of the web and the Mozilla Festival. What I found most inspiring was Stefan’s ambition for changing the way the web is monetized to give open source and indie developers a fighting chance.
Mozilla is adding AI chatbot capabilities to the Firefox sidebar, an experiment we’ll build on in the months ahead. It’s part of our commitment to an internet where choice is a core tenet. This approach will not only offer choice to people who use Firefox — it will also demonstrate how consumer-level control and transparency can be incorporated into consumer technology.
Mozilla research finds that Common Crawl's outsized role in the generative AI boom has improved transparency and competition, but is also contributing to biased and opaque generative AI models.
