Next week, students from Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences and University of Groningen will record and validate as many hours of Dutch and Frisian audio as possible between Friday, January 15th 2021 and Friday, January 22nd 2021 on Common Voice. The goal of this weeklong contribute-a-thon is to increase participation for Dutch and Frisian, two languages that are typically underrepresented in voice databases.
Mozilla, with support from Coil, welcomes Amber Case and Matt Mankins as Fellows. Case and Mankins will reimagine new models and approaches for sustaining web content that is not reliant on advertising.