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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.
A paper by Mozilla Awardee Esther Mwema and Mozilla Senior Advisor Dr. Abeba Birhane highlights the extractive nature of Alphabet’s Equiano and Meta’s 2Africa undersea cables
Kristophina Shilongo is a Mozilla Senior Fellow working on recommendations for participatory governance models to African states for the formulation, adoption and/or evaluation of AI policies and legislation.