We are having issues while reviewing voice clips in Uzbek. This issue with empty/silent recordings is occuring many times.
What we noticed:
when these silent clips are played the spectrum is infinite and as if the recording is speeding up.https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AWTnAeUXLp1Bb4OBhTpFiVMz6m-qdUgL/view?usp=sharing )
it is not related to internet connection issue (we thought it was because the internet was slow, but turns out this is not the case)
the recordings are completely silent - it cannot be the people who are recording the clips, because there should be at least some background noise even if they don’t speak anything and submit
That’s why we belive this can be a bug in Common Voice API.
opened 08:42PM - 14 Jul 20 UTC
Bug
Over the past few days I have noticed an increase in empty recordings when valid… ating English.
To clarify, I don’t mean that the user didn’t speak and all you can hear is background noise. I literally hear no sound at all, as if the recording contains no data.
Occasionally Common Voice won’t play audio for a clip and I can usually skip it and it will play properly the next time I encounter it, however these clips won’t play even after multiple attempts. I can skip them and play other clips just fine, so it seems like it’s not an issue with my audio setup but a problem with the recordings themselves.
If I were to guess at the issue, I believe that recording may be failing for certain users but it’s still uploading empty clips as if the recording was successful.
Here are a few sentences in English that have blank recordings for me:
```
It is part mine, and part the Sioux...
To date, there have been nine Official Additions.
These glaciers have undergone acceleration in their melting in recent decades.
The regional hospital is the main employer in the city.
```
Oh, I found this issue on github, it is still open