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== September 23rd, 2019 ==
*'''MDN in VSCode and Around the World''' -- Microsoft VSCode, a hugely popular editor for web developers, has [https://www.janbambas.cz/visual-studio-code-auto-complete-displays-mdn-reference-for-css-and-html-tags/ added backlinks] to MDN in the current version. As developers edit they’ll see “intellisense” auto-completion information with a hoverable highlight that links directly back to the more detailed information on MDN. This makes it easy for developers to get right to relevant information on MDN without interrupting their workflow. And speaking of MDN, you might be interested to know that a deep dive into MDN demographics shows 16.6% of its users visit from the United States, 9% India, 7.5% China, 5.5% Japan, and 4.4% France. (Brazil, Germany, Russia, UK, and Canada round out the top 10).
* '''Aligning Text and Speech''' -- In order to properly train speech recognition engines like Deep Speech you need audio data of spoken voices aligned with accurate text translations so you can decisively link the spoken utterances with the words being spoken. While such aligned data sets are rare, there is an abundance of recorded speech with accurate associated transcripts, -- they’re just not properly aligned. That’s why we’re building [https://github.com/mozilla/DSAlign Deep Speech Aligner], which uses machine learning and Deep Speech STT itself to do the alignment and synthesize new trainable data sets. Last week we tested the Aligner by creating a 2.5k hour English speech corpus from data licensed, for free, from National Public Radio. This opens up the possibility of efficiently obtaining large speech data sets with little invested in the way of time and money.
* '''Open Source Codecs are Transforming Online Video''' -- Our real-time demo of AV1 encoding, which was popular last month at the Mile High Video event, went on the road last week to be part of the International Broadcasting Conference in Amsterdam as a highlighted part of Intel’s booth there. We showcased Intel’s AV1 encoder work with playback in Firefox 67, which thanks to AV1 delivers the same high quality content as existing alternatives but at about half the bitrate.You can read more about the demo in [https://itpeernetwork.intel.com/mozilla-av1/#gs.5i3h78 Intel’s blog post].
