Speech tech and Common Voice at Mozilla
Speech tech and Common Voice at Mozilla  
Podcast: Practical AI: Machine Learning, Data Science, LLM
Published On: Wed Sep 09 2020
Description: Many people are excited about creating usable speech technology. However, most of the audio data used by large companies isn’t available to the majority of people, and that data is often biased in terms of language, accent, and gender. Jenny, Josh, and Remy from Mozilla join us to discuss how Mozilla is building an open-source voice database that anyone can use to make innovative apps for devices and the web (Common Voice). They also discuss efforts through Mozilla fellowship program to develop speech tech for African languages and understand bias in data sets.