Firefox voice is a new experiment of Mozilla, just released as a beta version. This experiment introduces voice control into Firefox web browser, which is only suitable for desktop Firefox.

Interested users can visit the Firefox voice campaign website to join the beta and install the Firefox voice extension in the Firefox web browser.

The extension requires more permissions. The system will ask if Firefox voice is allowed to collect voice records and provide them to Mozilla for research. Users can allow or refuse the request. Note that Firefox voice uses Google cloud's voice service. Any voice command will be sent to Google services. But Mozilla said Google would not record the orders.

In fact, Firefox Voice is not the first attempt to introduce a voice control into Firefox. Mozilla had launched a project in 2017 called

At present, Firefox voice is still in the early stage of development. You can use it to do these basic things:

• Search the network, for example
• Search specific sites, e.g.
• Go to the website;
• Play music or video;
• Read the webpage;
• Browser controls such as
• Clipboard activities such as
• Translation, e.g.
• And more.

Firefox voice already supports many voice commands. As the development is still in progress, there may be more breakthroughs in the service in the future.

However, Firefox voice currently only supports English. Activate the Firefox voice icon in the address bar to use it.

Source:Ghacks