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> Imagine someone like Mozilla trying to collect hundreds of voice clips from each of tens of millions of users!! They do, and it's working! https://commonvoic
by sodality2 5y ago
> Imagine someone like Mozilla trying to collect hundreds of voice clips from each of tens of millions of users!!
They do, and it's working! https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/en https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/en
- londons_explore 5y agoExcept they have 12k hours of audio, when really they could do with 12B hours of audio...
- sodality2 5y agoGood point. I'm doing my part to contribute to it, though, not much else I can do!
- woodson 5y agoThen you need a lot of people that listen to those 12B hours of audio, and multiple listeners agree for each chunk of audio that what is spoken corresponds to the transcript.
- londons_explore 5y agoLots of machine learning systems can use unsupervised and semi-supervised learning. Then nobody has to listen to and annotate all that audio.
- woodson 5y agoYes, but then you don't need Mozilla collecting read speech samples. You can just scrape any audio out there, run speech activity detection, and there you go.
- totetsu 5y agoDidn't Moz fire all the people who worked on this, and they have started their own project now?