Re:Project Common Voice
by popinman322 on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @03:08AM
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Actually, based on the site content I think they're using it to create an archive of speech data to train speech recognition systems.
That is correct. The DeepSpeech project, https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech will use this data to train and validate open source / freely available speech to text models. The training data, along with the trained models will be made available for free to all users and researchers alike.
Site works fine from my location.
I think you are correct.
> Read a sentence to help our machine learn how real people speak. Check its work to help it improve. It’s that simple.
Re:Project Common Voice
by punchingwater on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @10:21AM
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Sorry about the 503s! We were adding servers to our cluster to handle the hacker news load, and a few 503s are hard to avoid. If this is consistently happening for you, please file a bug and we'll look at it.
Most of the computer generated stuff I've seen uses trained actors. Which neatly avoids the problem of trying to reconcile a myriad of accents and dialects, which was immediately apparent from the first two samples I tried.
edit: back up, seems to be about voice recognition, which this could help with no problem.