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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.

Common Voice April 12, 2024

Common Voice 2024 Roadmap

An overview of Common Voice's roadmap, goals and priorities for 2024 and beyond.

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Common Voice March 26, 2024

Clip Length Expansion for Common Voice

The Mozilla Common Voice dataset is expanding the length of clips held in its speech corpus to 15 seconds.

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Common Voice Feb. 2, 2024

Offering Domain tags for sentences on Common Voice

It's getting easier to create domain-specific datasets on Common Voice - from health to education to climate

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Common Voice Jan. 30, 2024

Expanding Gender options on Common Voice

We are adding more inclusive gender options for the Common Voice dataset

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Common Voice / Fellowships & Awards Jan. 9, 2024

Chatbots, Local Weather Reports, and a Boon for Kenya’s Smallholder Farmers

Strathmore University is the recipient of a Mozilla Common Voice grant. Its project combines data collected from mini-weather stations with a new chatbot to offer smallholder farmers real-time digital climate information in both English and Swahili.

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Common Voice / Kiswahili Dec. 6, 2023

Disrupting Voice Technology Status Quo through Kiswahili Hackathons

Mozilla’s Common Voice Kiswahili team has been organizing a four-part hackathon series to increase the number of voice technologists across East Africa

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Common Voice Oct. 18, 2023

Common Voice Announces Nine Winners in ‘Wanawake Mashujaa’ Competition

Winning entries span Eastern and Central African countries, will expand Common Voice’s open-source Kiswahili data set

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Common Voice Sept. 14, 2023

Upcoming Common Voice Data Migration

Common Voice will be migrating from AWS to GCP on September 18th and will have up to 2 hours of interrupted service.

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Common Voice May 22, 2023

Common Voice Kiswahili Festival Centers Women In Tech and Language Community

Attendees will learn how to contribute to Common Voice and compete in a gender-inclusive write-a-thon

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Common Voice May 9, 2023

The New Common Voice Sentence Collector

The Mozilla Common Voice Sentence Collector is changing, learn how to add your original writing to the dataset.

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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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