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

Re:Common Voice – Mozilla's initiative to help teach machine... by SamBam on Thursday October 17, 2019 @09:49AM (#21282010)

It is unclear to me what we're supposed to be validating the the "Listen" section.

1. That the words say what is written?

2. That the words are clear and easy to understand?

3. That the speech is fluent and natural and easy to listen to?

I would guess 1 and maybe 2, and not 3, but it's only a guess because I don't see it written down anywhere.

Many of the clips are very stilted, spoken slowly and unnaturally.(Also, sometimes the text doesn't make sense. "On a normal Hajj, it would be around to walk." But I'm guessing this doesn't matter.)

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Re:Common Voice – Mozilla's initiative to help teach machine... by dabinat on Thursday October 17, 2019 @11:12AM (#21282877)

This may help: https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/discussion-of-new-guidelines...

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Re:Common Voice – Mozilla's initiative to help teach machine... by SamBam on Thursday October 17, 2019 @04:28PM (#21286049)

That does help. And it should be linked clearly.

For those that don't want to read, the only real rule is: All the words are read exactly as written, and no other words are heard.

Clarity, stiltedness, background noise, pronunciation (so long as it's acceptable English), accent, etc don't matter.

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Re:Common Voice – Mozilla's initiative to help teach machine... by nsomaru on Thursday October 17, 2019 @09:51AM (#21282024)

Given that this will be fed into an ML system, noise is good (?) so probably (1).

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