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Re:Mozilla Overhauls Speech-To-Text Contribution Interface by makmanalp on Sunday July 01, 2018 @08:08PM (#17438466)
This is wonderful and addictive. One thing that comes to mind is that the UI allows for very little metadata - for example in some cases the audio has a slight mispronunciation even though the intended word was clear - wouldn't it be helpful to mark "difficult" cases like this? In other cases the volume is just super low or there is background noise.

The other thing is that it's very cool to see the "you helped us reach out x% goal" thing but it locks up all the previous / next shortcuts which means I have to switch back to the mouse after 5 entries.

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Re:Mozilla Overhauls Speech-To-Text Contribution Interface by punchingwater on Monday July 02, 2018 @04:50AM (#17440187)
We do have a issue filed to allow users to tag recordings with certain metadata, like noisy or male/female voice. https://github.com/mozilla/voice-web/issues/814

It is something we are still working on.

> The other thing is that it's very cool to see the "you helped us reach out x% goal" thing but it locks up all the previous / next shortcuts which means I have to switch back to the mouse after 5 entries.

That's a bug! Would you mind filing one here: https://github.com/mozilla/voice-web/issues

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Re:Mozilla Overhauls Speech-To-Text Contribution Interface by punchingwater on Monday July 02, 2018 @08:00AM (#17440928)
> The other thing is that it's very cool to see the "you helped us reach out x% goal" thing but it locks up all the previous / next shortcuts which means I have to switch back to the mouse after 5 entries.

We have a workaround in place, btw: https://github.com/mozilla/voice-web/issues/1179#issuecommen...

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Re:Mozilla Overhauls Speech-To-Text Contribution Interface by mgkimsal on Sunday July 01, 2018 @10:03PM (#17438860)
> for example in some cases the audio has a slight mispronunciation even though the intended word was clear

had similar issue/concern. ideally if enough people mark something as correct, the variations and slight differences will get merged together. it did still bother me a bit, as being able to add a bit more extra data would probably be helpful. but... maybe they can add some geo-ip data - respondents from various areas would probably mark more stuff 'correct' from their own region. ???

Being able to mark something 'close', or rate it (1-5, maybe) would help. Just heard an indian accent reading "It's such an unfair world, innit?" The words are... correct, but 'innit' is somewhat idiomatic (especially spelled out that way - seems more UK-oriented text). The pronunciation was "correct" but "awkward".

Also... (too lazy to check right now) - if I create an account, can I see the 'yes/no' ratings of my own submissions?

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Re:Mozilla Overhauls Speech-To-Text Contribution Interface by punchingwater on Monday July 02, 2018 @04:51AM (#17440192)
> Also... (too lazy to check right now) - if I create an account, can I see the 'yes/no' ratings of my own submissions?

Not yet, but this is something in the works. You can explore our new experience with the evergreen link: http://bit.ly/cv-desktop-ux

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Re:Mozilla Overhauls Speech-To-Text Contribution Interface by Rodd45 on Tuesday July 03, 2018 @02:18AM (#17447972)
Accents would be an issue for some, especially those who live in the other part of the world. Choices among accent depending on the region of the world would be useful.
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