Common Voice
Common Voice is a project to help make voice recognition open to everyone. Developers need an enormous amount of voice data to build voice recognition technologies, and currently most of that data is expensive and proprietary. We want to make voice data freely and publicly available, and make sure the data represents the diversity of real people. Together we can make voice recognition better for everyone.
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Common Voice May 20, 2022Common Voice, Hekaya Arts Initiative Announce Kiswahili Writing Competition Winners
In April, Mozilla’s Common Voice and Hekaya Arts initiative asked Kiswahili literature lovers to write essays inspired by culture, heritage, and social justice themes. The result; 33 entries of creative writing pieces in both fiction and non-fiction categories in Tanzania, Kenya, and Burundi.
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Common Voice April 12, 2022Common Voice and Hekaya Arts Initiative Kiswahili Writing Competition
Mozilla’s Common Voice in collaboration with Hekaya Arts Initiative is awarding the top three Kiswahili essay writers with prizes of $400 USD, $250 USD, and $100 USD respectively. The writing competition is part of Mozilla’s Common Voice goal to grow Kiswahili’s open-source data set, enabling the inclusion of local African languages in tech use and development.
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Common Voice March 3, 2022Common Voice Announces $400,000 in Awards for Kiswahili Voice Technologies
Mozilla Common Voice is announcing $400,000 USD in grants for voice technologies that leverage our open-source Kiswahili data set. Awards of up to $50,000 each will be given to winning projects in Kenya, Tanzania, and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Specifically, Common Voice is seeking projects focused on agriculture and finance, and that uplift groups who experience digital exclusion. The initiative will support people and projects across East Africa who are using voice technology to unlock social and economic opportunities.
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