Common Voice

Mozilla’s blog features guides to making your online life better, stories from the movement, and critical analysis of issues around internet health.

Common Voice March 16, 2023

Guidance for splinter datasets on MCV

A brief guide below to help you generate a splinter dataset to complement Common Voice.

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Common Voice March 8, 2023

Common Voice Announces ‘Wanawake Mashujaa’ Writing Competition for International Women’s Day

Mozilla is seeking essays about outstanding women in East and Central Africa, in order to expand our open-source Kiswahili data set

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Common Voice March 7, 2023

New Report: How to Build Community-Driven Data Sets in East Africa

The report summarizes lessons learned and strategies that the three voice communities used to create publicly available datasets.

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Common Voice Feb. 28, 2023

The Importance of Voice Recognition Chatbots for African Languages

Engineering and Artificial Intelligence graduate student, Yonas Chanie is one of the team members whose project won the Common Voice African Languages STT Model Sprint. The competition incentivized voice technologists to design well-performing models enhancing linguistic diversity and inclusion issues in the voice tech space.

Tracy Kariuki
Common Voice Feb. 23, 2023

Common Voice Kiswahili Festival Brings Community Together To Grow Dataset

Attendees will have the opportunity to design voice models using the Kiswahili dataset and bag a total cash prize of KSH. 100,000

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Common Voice Feb. 7, 2023

Gender Inclusive Automatic Speech Recognition Model for the Blind and Elderly

To change the course of bias and its manifestation, is to diversify the dataset on which these models are trained — This is what inspired a local tech firm in Thailand called WEDO.

Tracy Kariuki
Common Voice Feb. 1, 2023

A Toolbox for Dataset Bias Detection

Özden is now one of the four Mozilla Common Voice ‘Our Voices’ competition winners receiving the cash prize award of $2,000 USD which asked technologists worldwide to propose innovative solutions for making voice technology less biased and more inclusive.

Tracy Kariuki
Common Voice Jan. 24, 2023

Giving a Voice to Low-resourced, ‘Minority’ Languages

Profile feature of Preben Vangberg and Leena Farhat, one of the winning teams from Mozilla’s Common Voice, ‘Our Voice’ competition.

Tracy Kariuki
Common Voice Jan. 18, 2023

Why metadata matters

about metadata on common voice

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Common Voice Jan. 16, 2023

Keeping Kurdish Alive

This is a profile feature of Davud Kakaie, one of Mozilla’s Common Voice, ‘Our Voice’ competition winners.

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Common Voice Jan. 10, 2023

Announcing Mozilla’s Common Voice ‘Our Voices’ Competition Winners

Four projects won Mozilla’s call to fight bias and broaden inclusion in voice technology

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Common Voice / Kiswahili Dec. 20, 2022

Voice Technologies and Privacy

This post discusses concerns around voice technology and privacy.

Mercy Wambui King'ori