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July 19, 2017 02:41 pm GMT

Mozilla wants to use your voice to help developers create new apps

Mozilla is building a massive repository of voice recordings for the voice apps of the future — and it wants you to add yours to the collection. 

The organization behind the Firefox browser is launching Common Voice, a project to crowdsource audio samples from the public. The goal is to collect about 10,000 hours of audio in various accents and make it publicly available for everyone.

Building a database large enough to recognize speech that will power apps like the digital assistants that have become such a big part of our daily lives requires a ton of audio — so the company is asking the public to pitch in, just like Google's, who's AI experiment Quick! Draw uses a fun sketch game to train its computer vision AI. Read more...

More about Voice Commands, Voice Assistants, Crowdsourcing, Mozilla, and Speech Apps

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