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> Voice datasets also underrepresent: non-English speakers, people of colour, disabled people, women and LGBTQIA+ people. How does being gay change your voice?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_linguistics#Accents_of_En...
With recent events in AI and deepfake technology, I would need to see some assurances before I agreed to “donate my voice” to something like this. It seems like the project is for voice recognition, not generation, but it’s not immediately clear.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_linguistics#Accents_of_En...
I'm aware of the trope. I've yet to meet anyone that adheres to it, though. Always thought it was just one of those things that Hollywood overemphasizes to "other" gay people.
They may over emphasize it. I don't know. But now you know they didn't invent it.
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Mozilla didn't want to fund further development, most of the team ended up at Coqui.ai
Mozilla shut that project down same day (Apr 12, 2021) as: "Mozilla is partnering with NVIDIA, which is investing $1.5 million in Mozilla Common Voice,". Aka they got paid off by Nvidia to not compete.
Seems more likely that Mozilla would have shut down both projects, but NVIDIA funding saved the more important one.
I submitted a request for Norwegian Bokmål, and realised a complication which I'm sure must affect other languages too: Norway has two separate official languages. They are unusually close - one is relatively close to Danish, and the other started as a collection of dialects, but technically they are written languages, especially Bokmål which basically means "book language". I'm unusual in that I speak close to "pure…
... is currently in progress. What's missing is a sufficiently complete translation of the UI https://pontoon.mozilla.org/projects/common-voice/ and a sufficiently large number of sentences for people to record https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/nb-NO/write
> let each speaker at least assign a lot of tags/labels to their profile
Common Voice data files have columns for age, gender, accents, variant, locale and segment. (Not sure what that last one is.) These are per recording, but I'm pretty sure they're the same for all recordings by the same speaker.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_linguistics#Accents_of_En...
I'm aware of the trope. I've yet to meet anyone that adheres to it, though. Always thought it was just one of those things that Hollywood overemphasizes to "other" gay people.
I wish they'd concentrate on the browser.
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