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== September 9th, 2019 ==
* '''Diversifying Voice Recognition''' -- Our Kelly Davis was interviewed by The Next Web for a story entitled “[https://thenextweb.com/tech/2019/08/27/how-mozilla-is-crowdsourcing-speech-to-diversify-voice-recognition/ How Mozilla is Crowdsourcing Speech to Diversify Voice Recognition]”, highlighting our work on Mozilla’s Common Voice project. The article highlights that while voice control is the future of human-machine interaction, its innovative potential is widely untapped because developers, researchers, and startups around the globe working on voice-recognition technology face one problem alike: a lack of publicly available voice data in their respective language to train speech-to-text engines. That’s why Mozilla’s Common Voice and Deep Speech projects, along with other “non-corporate” community efforts, are so important.
* '''Social VR Updates''' -- Our Social VR team has pushed a couple of updates including enhancing Spoke, our tool for creating 3D social spaces for Hubs, so it supports multi-object editing and project loading improvements. Also, if you’re left handed you might be pleased to hear we’ve added support for left-handed controller configurations to Hubs!
* '''Reminder/Request''' -- ViewSource 2019 begins three weeks from today with lots of great speakers and talks about the shape of the web and the web platform (which we'll record so you can watch them any time). Love to have you there, and/or to help us spread the word via social media, blogs, and developer conversations you may have between now and then. Details on speakers, venue, hotels and more are all on the [https://2019.viewsourceconf.org/ web site]. Thanks!