Community Strategy: What does Community Health mean to you?

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#21

IMHO the second important aspect of Common Voice is recording dying languages. There are about 7000 languages and about 2500 are in danger. And with the digital era, only %5 is presented on the WWW.

Most of these (very local, some tribal) languages are only spoken only by a few elderly people and they themselves are nearing their EOL.

I’d say -like we are doing in Oral History interviews for museums and language research-, let’s forget about diversity and ML in these cases and record them…

#22

@bozden

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#23

Thank you for reminding me…

#24

I do not think that this is the main goal and thinking in such a way is very reductionist and problematic. We can think of the main goal (imo) as getting enough and appropriate data for a robust speech recognition system. This cannot be defined only in number of hours or number of clips.

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#25

Please keep in mind that some of the proposals here in this thread could lead to frustation. And frustated contributers make frustated things.

#26

Hey everyone,

Thank you so much for your feedback on this discussion, it’s really helped me in understanding your needs. There have been various points of view and I have tried to summarise this with the following bullet points:

Community health looks like…

  • Contributors understand how their data contributes to creating Speech-to-text Models and the social-technical implications e.g dataset bias
  • Contributors can connect and organise with core contributors within their languages e.g localisation, networking, visibility of language community spaces
  • Community mobilisers can measure their impact on the platform through metrics
  • Community mobilisers can mitigate against project friction for example copyright issues in sentence collection

This isn’t an exhaustive list - If you have any further comments, please feel free to share. This ongoing conversation and point of reflection. (Also if you want to feedback via DM as well feel free too).

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#27

Also found this one (by accident):

https://rdcu.be/cBFhN

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