mozilla-extensions / firefox-voice

Firefox Voice is an experiment in a voice-controlled web user agent
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Operate offline and locally without "cloud" #1898

Open llebout opened 4 years ago

llebout commented 4 years ago

Hello!

The initiative that Mozilla has started is interesting, but I am a bit troubled that this requires "cloud" services. I think Mozilla's initiative is especially interesting if it's offline and can operate locally, with the same performance as if it was running in a "cloud". I am personally not at ease sending my voice over the Internet even with promises of it not being saved.

I am curious what are blockers to this and propose tracking them here.

Probably those could be around:

How does this exactly work on the "cloud" side? What would it take moving the "cloud" side entirely on the client side?

I would imagine it's possible to train a model using "cloud" resources and later execute that model locally.

Thank you!