Digital assistants are now a part of everyday life for many users, whether it's barking out commands at
Siri on an iPhone, summoning Google Now (or later
Duplex) on an Android device, asking
Cortana to look something up in
Windows 10, shouting at
Samsung's Bixby on a
Galaxy device, or asking
Amazon's Alexa to perform one of its
many skills. So what's next in the AI assistant space?
Mozilla is building a new voice-controlled web browser called Scout.
We all know Mozilla as the developer of
Firefox, one of the popular browsers that people turn to when they don't want to use Internet Explorer or Edge in Windows, or Safari on Windows (Firefox is also available on mobile platforms). In staying with the times, however, Mozilla sees a future in navigating the web by voice rather than punching or tapping keys on a keyboard, or moving a mouse or using swipes and gestures.
"With the Scout app, we start to explore browsing and consuming content with voice. This talk will discuss the architecture and key components needed for a voice platform, the required capabilities of those components and the challenges of working with the limitations and confines of existing platforms," Mozilla stated in an internal All Hands conference centered on the creation of a voice browser.
