Mozilla Common Voice’s Latest Ambition: Getting Voice Tools To Understand Natural Conversation & Casual Speech

The Common Voice project is a Mozilla effort meant to make speech recognition and voice-based AI more inclusive. Users donate their voice by sending in clips that, in turn, helps voice-based apps recognize a wider array of user voices. The team’s latest foray takes things to the next level with Spontaneous Speech. Learn more about it here.

AI Training Can Undermine the Open Web. This Team Is Thinking Through Solutions

In the struggle over who can train AI models and how, there’s a casualty many people don’t realize: The open web. Mozilla speaks with the team behind the Data Provenance Initiative, a Data Futures Lab Awardee.

On Digital Empathy: Gender Justice and AI

The importance of collective action and how we can use AI for good.

Strengthening Data Ecosystems in Indian Schools

DFL Showcase: Live at MozFest House Amsterdam 2024

The Data Future Labs (DFL) Showcase highlights builders around the world developing data tools and platforms that prioritize the needs and interests of their communities. In the fast-paced world of AI and data the popular discourse and priorities are set by a small but vocal minority. Through the DFL Showcase we hope to highlight and support a more global outlook on Data Futures and bring together dedicated funders ready to prioritize and invest in those futures.

The Effect of Ad Blocking on User Engagement with the Web

Panel: Voice Assistants, UX Design and Research

Telemetry-Aware Add-on Recommendation for Web Browser Customization

How Do People Change Their Technology Use in Protest?: Understanding “Protest Users”

Music, Search, and IoT: How People (Really) Use Voice Assistants