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== July 6th, 2020 ==
* '''Moon Robots!''' -- Back in April we mentioned DLR, the German national aeronautic and space agency had approached us about their interest in DeepSpeech, Mozilla’s open source speech recognition engine. Last week they issued a press release formally [https://www.dlr.de/content/en/articles/news/2020/03/20200701_dlr-and-mozilla-researching-technologies-for-voice-control-of-robots.html announcing] that collaboration as part of their Openvocs project. The goal of the DLR effort is to create a compact, efficient speech recognition system that can be embedded in satellites, space station systems, and robots so they can be effectively controlled in a hands-free way by astronauts or remotely from a control room. Results of the work will be available as open source and applicable to other embedded environments. Obviously we’re excited about collaborating with DLR and the idea of our work playing a role in the future of space exploration.
* '''Common Voice Dataset Release''' -- The middle of 2020 brought an important [https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/common-voice-dataset-release-mid-year-2020/62938 dataset update] from Project Common Voice. This latest release contains 7,226 hours of contributed voice data, 5,591 of which have been confirmed by our diligent contributors. Not only is Common Voice growing, it’s continuing to diversify as this release now includes voice recordings in 54 languages, 14 of which are new. Importantly, Common Voice also launched its first ever [https://voice.mozilla.org/en/datasets targeted data segment], allowing us to construct speech models for specific, narrowly-defined use cases -- in this case turned for simple commands such as “yes”/”no”, digits recognition, and “hey Firefox”, which we’ll be using with [https://voice.mozilla.org/firefox-voice/ Firefox Voice] and to help benchmark DeepSpeech.
* '''The DNA of the Web''' -- Last week Kadir Topal, MDN Product Manager and Victoria Wang, Sr.Firefox UX Developer, appeared (virtually) on stage at Google’s [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3QPKK0JPtI&feature=youtu.be&t=50 Web.dev Live] event to talk about Mozilla’s Web Developer Needs Assessment (DNA) report. Recognizing the need for clear insights from designers and developers about what they most need from the web, we carried out a detailed global study in 2019 and published our first DNA Report, gathering insights from more than 28,000 developers in 173 countries. The results have been tremendously useful to browser vendors, tool makers, and standards bodies, and in part due to that interest we’re gearing up for a second round of research in order to publish the second annual edition of the report. In the meantime you can read the [https://insights.developer.mozilla.org/ 2019 report] on MDN.
== June 29th, 2020 ==
* '''Safari Web Extensions, WWDC and MDN''' -- Last week at their annual Worldwide Developers Conference Apple announced that Safari is adopting a web-based API for browser [https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/What_are_WebExtensions extensions] similar to Firefox’s WebExtensions API. Built using familiar web technologies such as JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, the API makes it easy for developers to write one code base that will work in Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Edge and Safari with minimal browser-specific changes. Users will have more control over their web experience because they can use their favorite extensions everywhere. Moreover, as a result of the collaboration around this announcement, Safari is now covered as part of [https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Browser_support_for_JavaScript_APIs MDN’s Browser Compatibility Data] through information officially contributed and maintained by Apple. Check out the [https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/06/welcoming-safari-to-the-webextensions-community/ Hacks blog post] for more details.
