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Re:Common Voice – Mozilla's initiative to help teach machine... by pornel on Thursday October 17, 2019 @10:46AM (#21282594)
I'm talking about new languages, which haven't been launched yet, because they don't have enough text to record yet.

The actual method to contribute to them is finding Mozilla's internal translation tool, proposing translations, then finding a Mozillian to approve them. Then there's an obscure webapp for sentence submission and voting, but it doesn't give any feedback whether sentences you've submitted were accepted or went to /dev/null.

(you see people struggling with easiest things, because you assume people struggle with easiest things, rather than that you've misunderstood the problem.)

Re:Common Voice – Mozilla's initiative to help teach machine... by ascii_only on Thursday October 17, 2019 @06:00PM (#21286742)
There is feedback in sentence collector. If your sentence too long it will tell you straight away. If your sentence is rejected by people it will appear in "rejected sentences" tab. If your sentences are approved you can see it in GitHub repo.
Re:Common Voice – Mozilla's initiative to help teach machine... by pornel on Friday October 18, 2019 @07:19AM (#21290346)
What GitHub? Please realize that none of this is obvious to an outsider who doesn't know how your pipeline is built. None of this is explained on the Voice website. These tools aren't even linked to on the official website.

I've submitted 200 sentences, and none of the progress counters shown to me increased by 200, so I assumed they were lost, and gave up.

Re:Common Voice – Mozilla's initiative to help teach machine... by ascii_only on Friday October 18, 2019 @08:27AM (#21290761)
In mozilla/voice-web/server/data/ but if at your profile tab in sentence-collector there are 0 sentences added than that means that your sentences hadn't been added even to sentence-collector for approval.