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Mozilla Overhauls Speech-To-Text Contribution Interface

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Re: Mozilla Overhauls Speech-To-Text Contribution Interface

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Post by punchingwater »

_r_o_y_ wrote: post #27

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.

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 complicated at the moment, and we haven't built a way to do this through the website yet. So for now, we are doing this through a very manual process, and we plan to use email addresses to communicate.

Re: Mozilla Overhauls Speech-To-Text Contribution Interface

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Post by supuun »

a_imho wrote: post #31
userbinator wrote: post #19

From the description: 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. I'll be the first to note that here's another piece of personally identifying information you just "donated"...

I won't contribute because speech interfaces are imo terrible and against the proliferation of Echo and Duplex like services, but the data collected is listed here https://voice.mozilla.org/en/privacy

speech interfaces are developed by large corporations and there is nothing you can do about that. With Common Voice you are helping to create open-source alternative, which is a positive thing, I guess

Re: Mozilla Overhauls Speech-To-Text Contribution Interface

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Post by punchingwater »

punchingwater wrote: post #35
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…

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 are still working on. > 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. That's a bu…

> 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.

We have a workaround in place, btw: https://github.com/mozilla/voice-web/issues/1179#issuecommen...

Re: Mozilla Overhauls Speech-To-Text Contribution Interface

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Post by archgoon »

punchingwater wrote: post #34
archgoon wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

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

Thanks! Couldn't find the source of the Readme in the zipfile. Can you talk about what the update process for this file is? How often is it updated? Is there a way to just download the new files? Is there a tarball script for this in the repo somewhere?

I see that you have instructions for s3, are the files actually backed in s3? Is it possible to download them with s3 (possibly using requester pays)?

Re: Mozilla Overhauls Speech-To-Text Contribution Interface

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Post by Rodd45 »

mgkimsal wrote: post #29
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…

Accents would be an issue for some, especially those who live in the other part of the world. Choices among accent depending on the region of the world would be useful.

Re: Mozilla Overhauls Speech-To-Text Contribution Interface

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Post by punchingwater »

archgoon wrote: post #44
punchingwater wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Thanks! Couldn't find the source of the Readme in the zipfile. Can you talk about what the update process for this file is? How often is it updated? Is there a way to just download the new files? Is there a tarball script for this in the repo somewhere? I see that you have instructions for s3, are the files actually backed in s3? Is it possible to download them with s3 (possibly using requester pays)?

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. See here for some background:

https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/the-mozilla-guarantee-publis...

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