Mozilla is ending official support for the Mozilla Voice Proxy Server and its related projects on February 28, 2021. If you have installed the VoiceFill or Firefox Voice Beta extensions, an upcoming add-on update will notify you of this retirement timeline. These extensions will also uninstall themselves on February 19, 2021.
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History
The Mozilla Speech Proxy Server is being decommissioned on February 28, 2021. The server helped power the Voice Fill and Firefox Voice Beta extensions, which enabled voice-based interactions with the browser, and the WebSpeech API, which allowed developers to add voice based interactions to their web content and services. These extensions are being retired as part of the server decommissioning.
Extension Uninstallation
The VoiceFill and Firefox Voice Beta extensions will uninstall themselves on February 19, 2021. However, if you prefer to uninstall them sooner, you may do so manually using one of the following options:
Uninstall via the Add-on page
- Visit the listing page for the Voice Fill or Firefox Voice Beta extensions at addons.mozilla.org.
- Click near the top-right of the page. The extension will uninstall immediately.
Uninstall via the Firefox menu button
- Click the menu button The image "Fx57menu" does not exist..
- Click to open the Add-ons Manager.
- Find the VoiceFill or Firefox Voice Beta extension.
- Click the icon next to the extension and then select Remove.
Uninstall via the Firefox menu bar
- Click in the Firefox menu bar.
- Click the Add-ons entry to open the Add-ons Manager (choose the Extensions panel, if not selected already).
- Find VoiceFill or Firefox Voice Beta on the Add-ons Manager.
- Click the icon next to the extension and then select Remove.
Extension Source Code
The source code for Voice Fill and Firefox Voice Beta is freely available and distributed under the Mozilla Public License v 2.0.
Your privacy
If you opted in to allow us to collect your data to help with those experiments, we’ve already taken the steps necessary to permanently remove that data so it will not be retained by Mozilla (or anyone else).
