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Re: Mozilla Overhauls Speech-To-Text Contribution Interface

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Jul 01, 2018, 10:29 PM UTC

userbinator wrote: post #20

ipsum2 wrote: post #7

This is a nicely designed interface. Well done, Mozilla. Validating sentences is quite fun, listening to different accents from around the world. Try it out if you haven't already: https://voice.mozilla.org/en/listen It's awesome that the dataset is offered with a CC-0 license: https://voice.mozilla.org/en/data , does anyone know if it includes the answers from the survey? I have a limited bandwidth internet, so I ha…

Trolling of crowdsourced data isn't unheard of. ...in that case it was specifically done in retaliation to Google trying to get free mental labour from ReCAPTCHA users in return for being able to post to 4chan. Quite a different situation.

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Re: Mozilla Overhauls Speech-To-Text Contribution Interface

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Post by childintime » Sun, Jul 01, 2018, 10:33 PM UTC

On my 6th try, just to get an idea of what to expect, the sentence: "Birds feed their offspring with spiders, worms, slugs and bugs", was presented to me. Upon clicking play I heard "Fuck fuck fuck, shit shit shit, fuck fuck shit shit fuck".

No I shit you not.

Who was it? Miss, present thyself.

Re: Mozilla Overhauls Speech-To-Text Contribution Interface

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Jul 01, 2018, 11:26 PM UTC

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Re: Mozilla Overhauls Speech-To-Text Contribution Interface

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Post by archgoon » Sun, Jul 01, 2018, 11:42 PM UTC

ipsum2 wrote: post #7

This is a nicely designed interface. Well done, Mozilla. Validating sentences is quite fun, listening to different accents from around the world. Try it out if you haven't already: https://voice.mozilla.org/en/listen It's awesome that the dataset is offered with a CC-0 license: https://voice.mozilla.org/en/data , does anyone know if it includes the answers from the survey? I have a limited bandwidth internet, so I ha…

> It's awesome that the dataset is offered with a CC-0 license: https://voice.mozilla.org/en/data, does anyone know if it includes the answers from the survey?

I'm downloading it now, I'll have an answer in a half hour. Does anyone know if there is a torrent for it?

Re: Mozilla Overhauls Speech-To-Text Contribution Interface

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Post by makmanalp » Mon, Jul 02, 2018, 12:08 AM UTC

This is wonderful and addictive. One thing that comes to mind is that the UI allows for very little metadata - for example in some cases the audio has a slight mispronunciation even though the intended word was clear - wouldn't it be helpful to mark "difficult" cases like this? In other cases the volume is just super low or there is background noise.

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 the mouse after 5 entries.

Re: Mozilla Overhauls Speech-To-Text Contribution Interface

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Post by polygot » Mon, Jul 02, 2018, 12:11 AM UTC

Really nice app. It would be a nice feature to add volume normalization as some microphones/speakers are very soft, and I can't hear what they are saying, while others are much too loud.

Re: Mozilla Overhauls Speech-To-Text Contribution Interface

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Post by _r_o_y_ » Mon, Jul 02, 2018, 1:48 AM UTC

Even though is Mozilla I don't like the fact that they force you to receive emails if you one to add another language.

Edit: My bad, is only for the unavailable languages.

Re: Mozilla Overhauls Speech-To-Text Contribution Interface

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Post by archgoon » Mon, Jul 02, 2018, 2:02 AM UTC

archgoon wrote: post #24

ipsum2 wrote: post #7

This is a nicely designed interface. Well done, Mozilla. Validating sentences is quite fun, listening to different accents from around the world. Try it out if you haven't already: https://voice.mozilla.org/en/listen It's awesome that the dataset is offered with a CC-0 license: https://voice.mozilla.org/en/data , does anyone know if it includes the answers from the survey? I have a limited bandwidth internet, so I ha…

> It's awesome that the dataset is offered with a CC-0 license: https://voice.mozilla.org/en/data , does anyone know if it includes the answers from the survey? I'm downloading it now, I'll have an answer in a half hour. Does anyone know if there is a torrent for it?

Well, download took longer than expected :).

Anyhow, here's a sample from the csv file:

  filename,text,up_votes,down_votes,age,gender,accent,duration
  cv-valid-test/sample-001224.mp3,but i felt miserable watching him wither away like a shriveled dandelion,1,0,thirties,male,england,

Not sure how some of these are being populated, but yeah; there's several additional folders including invalid mp3, a splintered train set (not sure how it was selected) and a test set folder.

Here's the README.txt. Looks cool! Have happy hacky fun! :)

https://gist.github.com/cwgreene/f7f4df4ddcd9da017b9f4694b3f...

Interestingly; many of the 'invalid' mp3's are actually (mostly) correct. Listening to them is interesting to guess as to why they were downvoted.

Re: Mozilla Overhauls Speech-To-Text Contribution Interface

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Post by mgkimsal » Mon, Jul 02, 2018, 2:03 AM UTC

makmanalp wrote: post #25

This is wonderful and addictive. One thing that comes to mind is that the UI allows for very little metadata - for example in some cases the audio has a slight mispronunciation even though the intended word was clear - wouldn't it be helpful to mark "difficult" cases like this? In other cases the volume is just super low or there is background noise. The other thing is that it's very cool to see the "you helped us re…

> for example in some cases the audio has a slight mispronunciation even though the intended word was clear

had similar issue/concern. ideally if enough people mark something as correct, the variations and slight differences will get merged together. it did still bother me a bit, as being able to add a bit more extra data would probably be helpful. but... maybe they can add some geo-ip data - respondents from various areas would probably mark more stuff 'correct' from their own region. ???

Being able to mark something 'close', or rate it (1-5, maybe) would help. Just heard an indian accent reading "It's such an unfair world, innit?" The words are... correct, but 'innit' is somewhat idiomatic (especially spelled out that way - seems more UK-oriented text). The pronunciation was "correct" but "awkward".

Also... (too lazy to check right now) - if I create an account, can I see the 'yes/no' ratings of my own submissions?

Re: Mozilla Overhauls Speech-To-Text Contribution Interface

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Post by Rodd45 » Mon, Jul 02, 2018, 2:06 AM UTC

archgoon wrote: post #24

ipsum2 wrote: post #7

This is a nicely designed interface. Well done, Mozilla. Validating sentences is quite fun, listening to different accents from around the world. Try it out if you haven't already: https://voice.mozilla.org/en/listen It's awesome that the dataset is offered with a CC-0 license: https://voice.mozilla.org/en/data , does anyone know if it includes the answers from the survey? I have a limited bandwidth internet, so I ha…

> It's awesome that the dataset is offered with a CC-0 license: https://voice.mozilla.org/en/data , does anyone know if it includes the answers from the survey? I'm downloading it now, I'll have an answer in a half hour. Does anyone know if there is a torrent for it?

Can't wait to try it either.