Enabling New Web Experiences
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Mozilla demonstrates production use of Rust by extracting Servo components into Firefox Quantum to speed layout and parallelize rendering, shows WebAssembly powering Google Earth and enabling native-code modules in the browser, and ships a speech stack with DeepSpeech plus Common Voice that collects 400,000 recordings from 20,000 speakers and yields ~6.5% word error rate; WebXR and A-Frame provide mixed reality APIs, and a Voice Fill add-on proves the speech pipeline works end to end.
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