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 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.

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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.

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Common Voice Nov. 30, 2022

Common Voice African Languages: STT Model Sprint!

Let's open up Speech AI innovation! Enter an African language model into the competition sprint.

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Common Voice / Kiswahili Nov. 11, 2022

Winners of the second edition of Common Voice, Hekaya Arts Initiative Kiswahili writing competition

After a thorough review of all submitted essays, the selecting panel has announced the top three winning essays, bagging cash prizes of USD $400, $250, and $100 respectively.

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Common Voice / Kiswahili Oct. 28, 2022

Hekaya Arts Initiative Announces Third Kiswahili Writing Competition

This is the third phase of this writing competition, brought to you by Mozilla.

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Common Voice / Kiswahili Oct. 25, 2022

Opening Up Voice for Global Communities

At the recently held Mozilla All-Hands 2022, an annual gathering of the entire Mozilla ecosystem, the Common Voice team had an opportunity to showcase v…

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Common Voice Oct. 12, 2022

Iterating Dataset Access on Common Voice

Announcing: Delta Releases on Mozilla Common Voice! As of October 2022, we will be providing delta release downloads in addition to the full release dataset downloads.

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Common Voice Sept. 15, 2022

Mozilla’s Common Voice Dataset Reaches 100 Languages

Widely spoken in Ghana and other West African countries, Twi is the latest addition to the Common Voice open source language dataset.

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Common Voice Sept. 14, 2022

Common Voice for Everyone: Enabling Voice Data Donation in Low Internet Contexts - Mozilla advances platform inclusion with NVIDIA

A Telegram chatbot that enables voice contributions and an Android app that can be used offline — Two projects developed by voice technologists from Ethiopia and Italy are making Mozilla’s Common Voice platform more accessible for those in low and no internet environments.

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