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.
We had the pleasure of sitting down with Coil CEO and Founder Stefan Thomas to hear his thoughts on the state of the web and the Mozilla Festival. What I found most inspiring was Stefan’s ambition for changing the way the web is monetized to give open source and indie developers a fighting chance.
Mozilla Common Voice is announcing $400,000 USD in grants for voice technologies that leverage our open-source Kiswahili data set. Awards of up to $50,000 each will be given to winning projects in Kenya, Tanzania, and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Specifically, Common Voice is seeking projects focused on agriculture and finance, and that uplift groups who experience digital exclusion. The initiative will support people and projects across East Africa who are using voice technology to unlock social and economic opportunities.
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Stefan Baack,
Mozilla Insights
31 stycznia 2024
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