Post A8khFxUShqdD48gGLw by Mayana@dragonscave.space
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 (DIR) Post #A8khFxUShqdD48gGLw by Mayana@dragonscave.space
       2021-06-28T16:04:04Z
       
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       #Mozilla #CommonVoice wishes to gain 500000 new contributions by July 20th. Sounds  huge to me, but maybe it can happen!Common Voice is a really cool project attempting to collect recordings from people of all ages, genders, dialects, etc. so that future speech recognition can become more reliable, and so that we do not need to depend on things like Google's captioning service. If you care about #accessibility, #privacy or just like reading out or listening to random sentences, please optionally make an account (to help make the data more easily searchable) and contribute.https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/enThis absolutely does not go just for English speakers, BTW. English is doing just fine. If you speak any other languages, please help add, record and sort sentences in it, instead. For example, the Slovenian database is growing, slowly but surely!Edit: Fixing typos. Sorry!
       
 (DIR) Post #A8yocVIX6ub8BIEmh6 by fatboy@fosstodon.org
       2021-07-05T13:29:25Z
       
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       @Mayana What licence are they using for this?  I hope it stops big tech from using it
       
 (DIR) Post #A8yp7ulaT7iC9DnynA by Mayana@dragonscave.space
       2021-07-05T13:35:03Z
       
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       @fatboy CC0, I believe. That's basically public domain. Even big tech can use it.I understand your desire to prevent that. But, given the level of attention FOSS generally gives to accessibility ... as long as better caption services are being made, I'm happy, regardless of by whom.Naturally, this could also end up in the next shitty, privacy-unfriendly voice assistant. That's unfortunate. But oh well.
       
 (DIR) Post #A8ys8jJOqGa2m2hWTo by aral@mastodon.ar.al
       2021-07-05T13:50:55Z
       
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       @Mayana @fatboy Thing is, Mozilla could prevent that by licensing it under CC ShareAlike instead. But then, they wouldn’t be the Mozilla Corporation that exists by getting half a billion dollars from Google every year and whose head of EU public policy told me at a conference once “why do you hold us to a higher standard, we’re just another Silicon Valley tech company?”
       
 (DIR) Post #A8zAcoSU4Pfmb8RcK8 by aral@mastodon.ar.al
       2021-07-05T17:34:10Z
       
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       @Mayana Please don’t misunderstand: the reason I feel so strongly about this is because I feel it’s an unconscionable injustice that the only two options we have available to us are either sign away our human rights to big corporations or get better accessibility when that’s a false dichotomy created by Big Tech/Silicon Valley. It’s entirely possible that we can keep our human rights AND have better accessibility. Just not within capitalism / the Silicon Valley model.