Volunteer Opportunity:

If you want to help make speech recognition work better for a broader group of people, you can donate a recording to Common Voice, a project at the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation to create a large, openly accessible database of speech samples in dozens of languages.

https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/en

https://www.consumerreports.org/disability-rights/auto-captions-often-fall-short-on-zoom-facebook-and-others-a9742392879/?fbclid=IwAR3oew2tPpFNqxgz49-gRfDJzNO7iWpTvVGA_Qlvynx5XVQlAfSekXKVUD4

Why Common Voice?

Common Voice is a publicly available voice dataset, powered by the voices of volunteer contributors around the world. People who want to build voice applications can use the dataset to train machine learning models.

At present, most voice datasets are owned by companies, which stifles innovation. Voice datasets also underrepresent: non-English speakers, people of colour, disabled people, women and LGBTQIA+ people. This means that voice-enabled technology doesn’t work at all for many languages, and where it does work, it may not perform equally well for everyone. We want to change that by mobilising people everywhere to share their voice.

How does Common Voice work?

We’re crowdsourcing an open-source dataset of voices. Donate your voice, validate the accuracy of other people’s clips, make the dataset better for everyone.

Are you able to contribute your lip reading skills to restore dialogue to old Silent Movies?

This is the challenge for you!

This is a labor of love of historical importance.

These restored old movies will be catalogued in the Library of Congress