Spontaneous Speech mode and new dataset is coming to Common Voice
At Common Voice, we’re adding a new way to contribute your voice in a more natural way, Spontaneous Speech. In Spontaneous Speech, you’ll be able to answer questions in your own words, which will then be transcribed. This will create a new parallel dataset to accompany the existing read speech datasets on the platform.
Spontaneous Speech is available now and be accessed from the “Speak” menu dropdown at commonvoice.mozilla.org
How to add my language to Spontaneous Speech mode on Common Voice:
You can request a new language using this form, being sure to tick that your request is to add this language to Spontaneous Speech. Adding a new language can optionally include localization of the Spontaneous Speech UI into your language, or you can allow your users to select from any existing UI localization.
Adding a new language to Spontaneous Speech mode will require writing 60 or more questions for contributors to answer. These prompts will be unique to each language, and can bring out the kind of responses that will be valuable to your community.
To better support our language communities we’ll be running two drop in open office hours calls to walk you through writing good prompts at May 20th at 7:00pm UTC (Registration here) and May 22 at 6:00am UTC (Registration here) We’ll also share slides from these sessions with the community next week, for those unable to attend.
Questions? Concerns? Feedback? Ideas on what we should build next? We always want to hear from you! Reply to this thread, message me directly or email the team at commonvoice@mozilla.com