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Audiobooks are definitely possible for ASR training. Indeed the largest open ASR training dataset before Common Voice was LibriSpeech ( http://www.openslr.org/12/ ). Also note, the…

the article states: > “But Reitze counters that the complete data from that first run is already available online. According to Shoemaker, this includes the relevant time series da…

Just to add my two cents (I work for Mozilla on Common Voice): without help from linguists, Common Voice would have made some very different and very bad decisions about all sorts …

We have no plans to allow users to download the "raw" data from s3 (ie. before we perform the train/dev/test split). But we want to eventually build some tools to automate this. Se…

> The other thing is that it's very cool to see the "you helped us reach out x% goal" thing but it locks up all the previous / next shortcuts which means I have to switch back to t…

Just to note, we will never require your email address to contribute. There will always be an anonymous contribution workflow. But adding new languages to Common Voice is a bit com…

Thank you for bringing this up. Indeed Common Voice is not for everyone. We try to make it clear in our Privacy Policy [1] what pieces of data we collect and why. We do not publish…

In the early days of this project, before we shipped the website (ie. ~March of 2017), we did some explorations around Mechanical Turk. The problem with the Mech Turk approach is t…

There has been some discussion around this, but no real movement yet: https://github.com/mozilla/voice-web/issues/336

Would you mind filing an issue? https://github.com/mozilla/voice-web/issues

> Also... (too lazy to check right now) - if I create an account, can I see the 'yes/no' ratings of my own submissions? Not yet, but this is something in the works. You can explore…

We do have a issue filed to allow users to tag recordings with certain metadata, like noisy or male/female voice. https://github.com/mozilla/voice-web/issues/814 It is something we…

We also keep the README in the repo: https://github.com/mozilla/voice-web/blob/master/docs/corpus...

We used some of the research around Mechanical Turk to find best practices for limiting trolling (e.g. [1]). Our approach thus far has been the two-thirds rule: if two out of three…

Don't forget Kaldi! https://github.com/kaldi-asr/kaldi

Thank you so much! I also want to emphasize the importance of listening (validating) as well as recording. Validation is an big part of the puzzle for building machine learning via…

Yup, this is an excellent point. We have, and will continue to explore ways to allow Common Voice users to speak more organically (for instance by answering a question, or respondi…

Noted. Again thanks for the feedback :)

This is a bug with our website [1]. We actually are trying to collect non-native speakers (as well as native). We are looking into clarifying this on the site. 1.) https://github.c…

Good question. Sounds like we should add an "Other" to that drop down, and make it clear that we are looking for all accents?

Exactly! Part of the goals of Common Voice is to make voice recognition work better for non-north american men (which is where the vast majority of the training data comes from). I…

Sorry about the 503s! We were adding servers to our cluster to handle the hacker news load, and a few 503s are hard to avoid. If this is consistently happening for you, please file…

Great feedback, we can look into clarifying on our homepage that our entire goal is to create a dataset in the public domain. We want people to donate not just to Mozilla, but to t…

Common Voice is only about collecting a large public database of voices. We do have a separate project around speech-to-text [1]. We haven't done much work around speaker recogniti…

thanks for the vote of confidence! yes we will absolutely open this data up, and it's just a matter of collecting enough data to be useful, and then building the UI. we have a goal…