World Voice Day: Common Voice Sprint

I think we guys are fortunate enough, that we were working on a common voice sprint. Which is all about a series of contributing to common voice. The sequence of this series hits precisely on the voice day of the world on April 16th, this is the best coincidence I can ever have. World Voice Day is a worldwide annual event that takes place on April 16th devoted to the celebration of the phenomenon of voice.

Every voice group in each country can make different choices in how to approach this event, with many different activities, from artistic performances to health improvement events. Most of World Voice Day activities take place on April 16th, but many events extend across the entire week or even throughout the whole month but some countries extend them to the whole week or even the whole month. Some countries prefer to celebrate in other months. However, April 16th is the traditional and most widely accepted date for celebrating World VoiceDay.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Voice_Day

Common Voice Sprint

As the part of our new series of Community call, Voice the web project is about contributing in a common voice. Common Voice is a crowdsourcing project that has been started by Mozilla to create a free speech recognition software database. The project is assisted by volunteers who record sample sentences with a microphone and also review other user’s recordings. Mozilla wants to empower developers to create incredible voice recognition applications such as real-time translators. But most of the voice data needed to create these apps are costly, proprietary right now. We hope the Common Voice dataset can provide developers with what they need to invent and deliver voice technology in their own language. The Common Voice dataset is available for download under the CC0 license on Datasets page.

We planned this series exactly with the gap after Seven days & it started on the 1st of April, the project is in the third week. We’re having a community call after every week, and we’re doing a countable discussion about our next potential ways to contribute in a common voice. It’s a wonderful opportunity to discuss or think about various voices and speeches with different people from different states using different language in a single community call. All of us from Mozilla Punjab ensure there must be a contribution to common voice for our future database.

The goal of the Common Voice dataset is to enable anyone in the world to build speech recognition, speaker recognition, or any other type of application that requires voice data. A voice assistant is just one of many types of applications you could use the dataset to build & we also follow the same initiative by contributing for common voice.

Right up until next time! Take note, keep spreading love, open-source