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Mozilla updates Common Voice dataset with 1,400 hours of speech across 18 languages
Mozilla wants to make it easier for startups, researchers, and hobbyists to build voice-enabled apps, services, and devices. Toward that end, it's today releasing the latest version of Common Voice, its open source collection of transcribed voice data that now comprises over 1,400 hours of voice samples from 42,000 contributors across 18 languages, including English, French, German, Dutch, Hakha-Chin, Esperanto, Farsi, Basque, Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, Welsh, and Kabyle.
It's one of the largest multi-language dataset of its kind, Mozilla claims — substantially larger than the Common Voice corpus it made publicly available eight months ago, which contained 500 hours (400,000 recordings) from 20,000 volunteers in English — and the corpus will soon grow larger still. The organization says that data collection efforts in 70 languages are actively underway via the Common Voice website and mobile apps.
Common Voice home page. Also at Engadget.
Previously: Mozilla's "Common Voice": Voice Recognition Without Google, Amazon, Baidu, Apple, Microsoft, etc.
Mozilla's Common Voice Collecting French, German, and Welsh Samples, Prepping 40 More Languages
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday March 01 2019, @03:13AM (5 children)
So, uhhhhh, nothing super special? Useful, maybe, but nothing super special.
Don't we all love meaningless sales pitches?
(Score: 4, Informative) by takyon on Friday March 01 2019, @03:47AM
LICENSE
CC-0
https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/ [creativecommons.org]
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 01 2019, @04:31AM
The good thing with aging related dementia . . . it's kind. For, in its kindness, the sufferer is blissful unaware of the affliction.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 01 2019, @04:36AM
Do you feel like you are denied something super special, something that you totally deserve?
'Useful' and 'meaningless' . . . I see you mastered the art of cognitive dissonance.
(Score: 5, Informative) by richtopia on Friday March 01 2019, @06:16AM (1 child)
There are larger databases, but not publically available. Google Assistant, Siri, and Cortana's voice recognition system trained on similar datasets. Mozilla's motivation is to provide an open alternative, and even the reference dataset is a step forward to competing with these services.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday March 01 2019, @04:03PM
No thanks Mozilla. Such databases should be much larger, like those "not publicly available" ones, and for FREE. Because I'm entitled!
And by the way . . .
It is the government's and everyone else's duty to guarantee my happiness. Doesn't the constitution guarantee my happiness? I shouldn't have to "pursue" happiness. That would require some effort and sounds too much like something called "work". I've got it! I'll become a "Social Media Influencer"! That's it! I can get free stuff for doing no actual work except posting excessively long and content free YouTube videos! It's a great career path!
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