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Feb 2022
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Voice for Everyone with Hillary Juma fro...

SCOTT HANSELMAN
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Common Voice is a crowdsourcing project started by Mozilla to create a free database for speech recognition software. The project is supported by volunteers who record sample sentences with a microphone and review recordings of other users. Community Manager Hillary Juma talks to Scott about how the system works and why it's so important to enable all langua ... Show More
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