Common Voice by Mozilla
commonvoice.mozilla.org
Common Voice is a project to help make voice recognition open to everyone. Now you can donate your voice to help us build an open-source voice database that anyone can use to make innovative apps for devices and the web.

It’s really simple so if you have 5 minutes give it a shot

  • @Niquarl
    6•3 years ago

    For those of you that don’t want Mozilla to have a recording of your voice or don’t like the choice of the licence: You can also help verify recordings from others.

  • @kevincox
    5•3 years ago

    I love the project but I have a lot of concerns about this interface.

    1. When recording there should be a “retry” button. Now you need to end, then manually go back and re-record the last one. I seems like stumbling would be a common experience.
    2. How should I try to read? Slow and very enunciated? Well enunciated like an announcer or actor? Or as I normally speak?
    3. When reviewing what I am looking for? That I understand it as the words that were said? That it was clear? That it was at a regular pace without awkward pauses?
  • @Niquarl
    4•3 years ago

    One thing I will give great credit for is having contributors in some pretty uncommon languages. Breton’s got a couple of hours for example, despite it having less than 0.2 million speakers and not being recognised by companies such as Google.

    It’s got a bit of a problem regarding gender imbalance but accents aren’t that bad to be honest.

  • @k_o_tM
    4•3 years ago

    the concerns people expressed are totally valid, but i would much rather have mozilla maintain an advanced ML voice library than, say, google or facebook

    • samuraikid
      -2•3 years ago

      11 Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices. Satan has been using the same tricks from the very beginning. He has the same devices to trap and trick people.

      @k_o_t@lemmy.ml @Niquarl@lemmy.ml said “It’s also licenced under CC0 so anybody could use it to be clear, not just FLOSS projects or ethical ones.”

  • samuraikid
    2•3 years ago

    Also your voice will be stored eternally on the cloud. Do you want that ? hmm

    • Jama
      6•3 years ago

      If I willingly do it and it’s for helping a good project: yes, of course. Moreover, your voice isn’t linked to you, and if you want you can do it through tor

      • samuraikid
        4•3 years ago

        That will still record your unique voice mate …

      • @Niquarl
        2•3 years ago

        It’s a recording of your voice, whether doing it via TOR or not. It’s also licenced under CC0 so anybody could use it to be clear, not just FLOSS projects or ethical ones.

  • @yxzi
    2•3 years ago

    finally something to compete with Forvo

  • samuraikid
    -4•3 years ago

    No one care about biometrics shi* give us your soul kinda question that one