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Re: Common Voice

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Post by meepmorp »

skrebbel wrote: post #20
meepmorp wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 :-)

Don’t feel bad - it’s not especially obvious. I only thought about it because I’m already familiar with the project.

Re: Common Voice

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Post by j45 »

sxp wrote: post #5

FF's TTS is an important project for anyone who wants a trivial to use text-to-speech system. It's built into the browser so you can just run wss = window.speechSynthesis; for (let i = 0; i

This is handy to know, thanks. I was just trying out Common Voice a few days ago.

They have a good example of a community page for folks wanting to help with a particular language.

I was just thinking today that Firefox is worthy of switching back to because it was so fast,except I hadn't had a chance to do it.

If anyone else thinks it's important for there to be an independent browser dedicated to privacy and security (and independence), they could as many casual browser switchers. I'm happy to be back on a few FF extension that didn't work quite the same on any chrome based browser.

Re: Common Voice

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Post by vlod »

sxp wrote: post #5

FF's TTS is an important project for anyone who wants a trivial to use text-to-speech system. It's built into the browser so you can just run wss = window.speechSynthesis; for (let i = 0; i

This also works in Chrome (My version is: 119.0.6045.199)

FF has 8611 voices, chrome has 19.

Re: Common Voice

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Post by dabinat »

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

Although English is the most-contributed language, one of the goals of Common Voice is to support languages that wouldn’t normally receive attention from commercial providers.

Re: Common Voice

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Post by joshstrange »

vlod wrote: post #23
sxp wrote: post #5

FF's TTS is an important project for anyone who wants a trivial to use text-to-speech system. It's built into the browser so you can just run wss = window.speechSynthesis; for (let i = 0; i

This also works in Chrome (My version is: 119.0.6045.199) FF has 8611 voices, chrome has 19.

That's odd, my Chrome (119.0.6045.199) has 176 voices. Not all are English though.

Re: Common Voice

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Post by vlod »

joshstrange wrote: post #25
vlod wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This also works in Chrome (My version is: 119.0.6045.199) FF has 8611 voices, chrome has 19.

That's odd, my Chrome (119.0.6045.199) has 176 voices. Not all are English though.

Maybe it's because I'm linux? (Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS)

Also I have 3 English only.

Re: Common Voice

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Post by yorwba »

dabinat wrote: post #24
meepmorp wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Although English is the most-contributed language, one of the goals of Common Voice is to support languages that wouldn’t normally receive attention from commercial providers.

The most-contributed language is Catalan with 3678 hours recorded vs. 3395 hours in English https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/en/languages (The language list sorts your browser's UI languages ahead of all others, which is why English may appear on top for you.)

Re: Common Voice

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Post by dang »

Related. Others?

Mozilla Common Voice Adds 16 New Languages and 4,600 New Hours of Speech - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28073016 - Aug 2021 (170 comments)

Firefox Voice - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24096082 - Aug 2020 (154 comments)

Firefox Voice: Browse the web with your voice - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23902560 - July 2020 (2 comments)

Mozilla Common Voice Dataset: More data, more languages - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23695377 - June 2020 (41 comments)

The Common Voice Project by Mozilla reached its first goal: 1k hours in englisch - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23051756 - May 2020 (1 comment)

Common Voice: A Massively-Multilingual Speech Corpus - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21887693 - Dec 2019 (9 comments)

Common Voice – Mozilla's initiative to help teach machines how real people speak - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21268579 - Oct 2019 (49 comments)

Mozilla releases the largest to-date public domain transcribed voice dataset - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19270646 - Feb 2019 (61 comments)

Mozilla Overhauls Speech-To-Text Contribution Interface - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17436958 - July 2018 (42 comments)

Initial Release of Mozilla’s Open Source Speech Recognition Model and Voice Data - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15808124 - Nov 2017 (88 comments)

Project Common Voice - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14794654 - July 2017 (57 comments)

Mozilla: Project Common Voice - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14786881 - July 2017 (1 comment)

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