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Common Voice

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Common Voice
Developer(s)Mozilla Foundation
Initial releaseJune 19, 2017;7 years ago(2017-06-19)
Repositorygithub/common-voice/common-voice
Available inMultilingual (List of languages)
LicenseCreative Commons CC0
Websitecommonvoice.mozilla.org

Common Voiceis acrowdsourcingproject started byMozillato create a freedatabaseforspeech recognition software.The project is supported byvolunteerswho record sample sentences with amicrophoneand review recordings of other users. The transcribed sentences will be collected in a voice database available under thepublic domainlicenseCC0.This license ensures thatdeveloperscan use the database for voice-to-text applications without restrictions or costs.

Aims

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Common Voice aims to provide diverse voice samples. According to Mozilla'sKatharina Borchert,many existing projects took datasets from public radio or otherwise had datasets that underrepresented both women and people with pronounced accents.[1]

History

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At the beginning of 2022, Bengali.AI partnered with Common Voice to launch "Bangla Speech Recognition" project that aims to make machines understandBangla language.2000 hours of voice was collected with aim for higher than 10,000 hours.[2]

Voice database

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The first dataset was released in November 2017. More than 20,000 users worldwide had recorded 500 hours of English sentences.[3]

In February 2019, the first batch of languages was released for use. This included 18 languages:English,French,GermanandMandarin Chinese,but also less prevalent languages asWelshandKabyle.In total, this included almost 1,400 hours of recorded voice data from more than 42,000 contributors.[4]

As of July 2020 the database has amassed 7,226 hours of voice recordings in 54 languages, 5,591 hours of which has been verified by volunteers.[5]

In May 2021, following the work to addKinyarwanda,they received a grant to addKiswahili.[6]

In September 2022, it was announced that theTwi languageof Ghana was the 100th language to be added to the Mozilla Common Voice database.[7]

As of October 2022,Mozilla Common Voice officially collects voice data for the following languages:[8]

See also

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References

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  1. ^"Why do we gender AI? Voice tech firms move to be more inclusive".The Guardian.11 January 2020.Archivedfrom the original on 19 December 2022.Retrieved19 April2020.
  2. ^"Bengali.AI: Democratising AI research in Bangla".The Business Standard.2022-12-23.Archivedfrom the original on 2022-12-24.Retrieved2022-12-25.
  3. ^"Announcing the Initial Release of Mozilla's Open Source Speech Recognition Model and Voice Dataset".blog mozilla.org.November 29, 2017.Archivedfrom the original on November 29, 2017.RetrievedNovember 19,2019.
  4. ^"Mozilla updates Common Voice dataset with 1,400 hours of speech across 18 languages".VentureBeat.February 28, 2019.Archivedfrom the original on March 4, 2019.RetrievedNovember 19,2019.
  5. ^"Mozilla Common Voice updates will help train the 'Hey Firefox' wakeword for voice-based web browsing".VentureBeat.1 July 2020. Archived fromthe originalon March 10, 2021.Retrieved1 April2021.
  6. ^"Mozilla Common Voice Receives $3.4 Million Investment to Democratize and Diversify Voice Tech in East Africa".Mozilla Foundation.2021-05-25.Archivedfrom the original on 2022-12-19.Retrieved2021-06-03.
  7. ^Onukwue, Alexander (23 September 2022)."Ghana's most popular language is now on Mozilla Common Voice".Quartz.Archivedfrom the original on 2 December 2022.Retrieved3 October2022.
  8. ^"Languages".commonvoice.mozilla.org.Archivedfrom the original on 24 December 2022.Retrieved4 October2022.
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