Common Voice – Mozilla's initiative to help teach machines how real people speak

Re:Common Voice – Mozilla's initiative to help teach machine... by bluGill on Thursday October 17, 2019 @09:06AM (#21281578)

Collecting data from children is nearly impossible for legal reasons. I mostly agree with the reasons, but the side effect is nobody has good data on children. Thus children are forever doomed to a bad experience, like the time my son asked "Hey Mycroft, how do you spell Kansas" "C-A-N-V-A-S" which he knew was wrong.

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Re:Common Voice – Mozilla's initiative to help teach machine... by lunixbochs on Thursday October 17, 2019 @10:11AM (#21282231)

Maybe we could specifically target voice actors who convincingly voice children in animated stuff

Edit:

- There are already paid child actors, you could somewhat-manually collect their speech from e.g. movies and TV shows to have _something_

- Even if there's some copyright issue with distributing their audio directly, it's not clear (uncertain but dubious?) that a model trained on their audio would have any copyright concerns as long as it can't be used to reproduce the original audio

- What is Mozilla going to do if <1% of their dataset is already children who didn't put an age in? Is that a COPPA violation? There's even the defense of "an adult can sound like a child and we also don't know who this child is so how is it personal information" (I have no idea the usefulness of any of that)

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