Nick, actually what I said was the models won't be ship, but the user will choose or not to download the models to enable speech api in his language in a separate panel inside the app.
On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 12:45 AM, Nick Alexander <[email protected]> wrote: > Forwarding to mobile-firefox-dev, since I think we should care about this. > > Andre's initial estimate is that the Web Speech API adds perhaps 9-10 megs > to our APK. I don't think we can ship this; I think we need to invest in > distributing these additional pieces separate of the main APK. We're > getting quite a list of additional content that we want to distribute after > install; see also [1]. (And I'm sure there are others.) > > Nick > > [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1095719 > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: Intent to ship: Web Speech API - Speech Recognition > with > Pocketsphinx > Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2014 02:20:50 -0200 > From: Andre Natal <[email protected]> > To: Nick Alexander <[email protected]> > CC: [email protected] > > > > > Thanks Nick, I appreciate your help. > > I created two versions of Fennec apk: one [1] with the english models > bundled (43.7 mb), and other [2] without it (34.6mb). This was the > mozconfig I used [3] > > Actually, I had a conversation with Jonas Sicking some months ago and we > agreed that the ideal scenario about this is to allow the user to > download the package for the language he prefer from some sort of > preferences screen, instead ship them bundled into the apk. > > > [1] > https://www.dropbox.com/s/6snv6e3mqqcs4zi/fennec-34.0a1. > en-US.android-arm.apk?dl=0 > [2] > https://www.dropbox.com/s/zxxop34unj21r1s/fennec-35.0a1. > en-US.android-arm.apk?dl=0 > [3] > #DEBUG > #ac_add_options --enable-debug > #ac_add_options --enable-trace-malloc > #ac_add_options --enable-accessibility > #ac_add_options --enable-signmar > ac_add_options --disable-tests > > # android options > ac_add_options --enable-application=mobile/android > ac_add_options --with-android-ndk="/Volumes/extra/android-ndk-r8e/" > ac_add_options > --with-android-sdk="/Volumes/extra/android-sdk-macosx/ > platforms/android-19/" > > # FOR ARM > ac_add_options --target=arm-linux-androideabi > mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=./obj-arm-linux-androideabi-debug > > > # FOR 386 > #ac_add_options --target=i386-linux-android > #mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=./objdir-droid-i386 > > On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 9:36 PM, Nick Alexander <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > On 2014-10-30, 4:18 PM, Andre Natal wrote: > > I've been researching speech recognition in Firefox for two > years. First > SpeechRTC, then emscripten, and now Web Speech API with CMU > pocketsphinx > [1] embedded in Gecko C++ layer, project that I had the luck to > develop for > Google Summer of Code with the mentoring of Olli Pettay, Guilherme > Gonçalves, Steven Lee, Randell Jesup plus others and with the > management of > Sandip Kamat. > > The implementation already works in B2G, Fennec and all FF desktop > versions, and the first language supported will be english. The > API and > implementation are in conformity with W3C standard [2]. The > preference to > enable it is: media.webspeech.service.__default = pocketsphinx > > > First, Andre, let me offer my congratulations on getting this > project to this point. We've talked a few times and I've always > been impressed. > > Can you point me at Fennec try builds? I vaguely recall that these > speech recognition approaches require large pattern matching files, > and I'd like to see what including the Speech API does to the Fennec > APK size. We're pushing pretty hard on reducing our APK size right > now because we believe it's a big barrier to entry and especially to > upgrading older devices. > > Nick > _________________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://lists.mozilla.org/__listinfo/dev-platform > <https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform> > > > > >
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