# Common Voice’s Kiswahili Community Event this August 27th

**URL:** <https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/common-voice-s-kiswahili-community-event-this-august-27th/85085>\
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**Created:** [August 26, 2021, 11:00am UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/common-voice-s-kiswahili-community-event-this-august-27th/85085 "2021-08-26T11:00:28Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 26, 2021, 11:00am UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/common-voice-s-kiswahili-community-event-this-august-27th/85085/1 "2021-08-26T11:00:28Z")

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[Cross-Posting from Mozilla Foundation Website](https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/announcing-common-voices-kiswahili-community-event-this-august/)

On August 27, Mozilla is bringing together the Kiswahili Common Voice community. Join us to collaborate and make Kiswahili voice technology more open and inclusive.

This 90-minute Zoom session is a chance for interested tech hubs, communities, and partners to learn more about Common Voice, Mozilla’s open-source initiative to make voice technology more inclusive. Contributors donate speech data — like Kiswahili — to a public dataset, which anyone can then use to train voice-enabled technology.

At the August 27 session, Mozilla’s Common Voice team will introduce the project, with a special focus on our Kiswahili work. The team will also showcase how to contribute and validate Kiswahili voice data; detail the importance of creating more diverse AI data sets; and present example use cases of this voice data in action.

To sign up, visit [please complete Google Form](https://forms.gle/br4Vgkr2M8t3Arw29).