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• LPCNet: DSP-Boosted Neural Speech Synthesis

  LPCNet is a new project out of Mozilla’s Emerging Technologies group — an efficient neural speech synthesiser with reduced complexity over some of its predecessors. Neural speech synthesis models like WaveNet have already demonstrated impressive speech synthesis quality, but their computational complexity has made them hard to use in real-time, ...

  Posted November 20, 2018 by Jean-Marc Valin

• Decentralizing Social Interactions with ActivityPub

  ActivityPub is a W3C standard protocol that describes ways for different social network sites (loosely defined) to talk to and interact with one another. ActivityPub aims to do for social network interactions what RSS did for content, and is being used today to power alternative social networks like Mastodon and ...

  Posted November 20, 2018 by Darius Kazemi

• The Power of Web Components

  Web Components comprises a set of standards that enable user-defined HTML elements. These elements can go in all the same places as traditional HTML. Despite the long standardization process, the emerging promise of Web Components puts more power in the hands of developers and creators. The post The Power of ...

  Posted November 15, 2018 by Potch

• New & Experimental Web Design Tools: Feedback Requested

  We’re currently hard at work on some new tools for web designers: a comprehensive Flexbox Inspector as well as CSS change-tracking. Tell us about your biggest CSS and web design issues and pain points in the first-ever Design Tools survey from Mozilla! We want to hear from developers and designers, ...

  Posted November 14, 2018 by Victoria Wang

• Private by Design: How we built Firefox Sync

  Firefox Sync lets you share your bookmarks, browsing history, passwords and other browser data between different devices, and send tabs from one device to another. We think it’s important to highlight the privacy aspects of Sync, which protects all your synced data by default so Mozilla can’t read it, ever. ...

  Posted November 13, 2018 by Tom Ritter