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Re: Common Voice

#11

Post by sowbug »

sonicanatidae wrote: post #7
sowbug wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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I mean, you're right, but so are they, just in the wrong place. :)

That's the problem with this kind of logical fallacy. It distracts from the discussion, often by introducing a well-settled issue that's hard to disagree with. A company can do two things at once, and it should be possible to discuss one without discussing both. This is especially true when the alternative topic is (paraphrased) that Firefox could be a better browser. Do we really want to steal from a rare chance to talk about Common Voice and overwhelm it with a thread with everyone's pet peeve about their web browser?

Re: Common Voice

#12

Post by culi »

dingnuts wrote: post #4
rwmj wrote: post #2

I wish they'd concentrate on the browser.

voice integration in a browser for control and feedback would be great if you were blind

And text-to-speech. Which is already a standard: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Speech_...

The web is in a hilarious state where it's harder to style an option in a drop down than it is to generate speech from some text

Re: Common Voice

#13

Post by OfSanguineFire »

rwmj wrote: post #2

I wish they'd concentrate on the browser.

Mycroft users really wished that Mozilla had kept up efforts in this direction, because otherwise the only option for reliable speech-to-text is uploading every command you give your agent to Google or Baidu. The browser is important, and I don’t support Mozilla’s vacuous projects for social-justice cred, but there are a handful of areas where we need some non-profit to provide a privacy-respecting solution.

Re: Common Voice

#14

Post by bitvoid »

user_7832 wrote: post #3

Didn't mozilla also have a related speech to text software that got canned/moved to a different company? Or was that different?

This is an open dataset of voice samples to train models, so not really STT/TTS software.

Re: Common Voice

#15

Post by imjonse »

While this dataset is orders of magnitude smaller than what recent speech models like Whisper and Seamless got trained on, and while it is meant for supervised as opposed to self-supervised learning where data is more abundant, it can still be useful for finetuning an existing model for improving its score on a specific language.

Re: Common Voice

#16

Post by rwmj »

OfSanguineFire wrote: post #13
rwmj wrote: post #2

I wish they'd concentrate on the browser.

Mycroft users really wished that Mozilla had kept up efforts in this direction, because otherwise the only option for reliable speech-to-text is uploading every command you give your agent to Google or Baidu. The browser is important, and I don’t support Mozilla’s vacuous projects for social-justice cred, but there are a handful of areas where we need some non-profit to provide a privacy-respecting solution.

That is indeed important, so I take it back (can't edit original post now).

Re: Common Voice

#17

Post by posguy »

salynchnew wrote: post #8
user_7832 wrote: post #3

Didn't mozilla also have a related speech to text software that got canned/moved to a different company? Or was that different?

DeepSpeech? https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech

Mozilla didn't want to fund further development, most of the team ended up at Coqui.ai

Re: Common Voice

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Post by meepmorp »

skrebbel wrote: post #18

I’m sad that this is English only. I’ll love to contribute lots of voice for a Dutch TTS from an nonprofit org like Mozilla

They do collect other languages - there’s a setting for it in the annotation section, and the dataset downloads let you choose other languages.

e.g.: https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/nl/listen

Re: Common Voice

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Post by skrebbel »

meepmorp wrote: post #19
skrebbel wrote: post #18

I’m sad that this is English only. I’ll love to contribute lots of voice for a Dutch TTS from an nonprofit org like Mozilla

They do collect other languages - there’s a setting for it in the annotation section, and the dataset downloads let you choose other languages. e.g.: https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/nl/listen

Woops! Thanks :-)
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