Hey everyone,
Thank you for your feedback that some of the recording and validation guidelines do not reflect all languages. The CV site currently doesn’t support language-specific content but we are working towards launching this feature in 2022. In the meantime, we would still like to support people to understand what the guidelines mean in their own context.
Ahead of the end of year dataset release we are running Community Validation Drive to support voice clip validation.
I would like to encourage community members that have language-specific needs which aren’t met by the existing criteria to please start a new discourse topic discussion on Common Voice/language threads (e.g Spanish) or feel free to use another kind of platform for example Stefano’s post on Esperanto criteria.
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Brainstorm what is missing or doesn’t work for your language with the current criteria, for example by creating a discourse post or hosting a community call online
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Draft a document that has some examples of what you would like to include. We have created a template, that you can use to support your discussion.
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Have a review period in which people can look over the doc and respond
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When you’re happy with the draft, email commonvoice@mozilla.com with a word formatted document, or add directly to this google drive
If your language doesn’t have a Common Voice discourse thread like Spanish and you would like one created please direct message me via discourse.
Creating language-specific resources such as a validation can help with your community goals.
I’m happy to include links to these validation documents in the community playbook to help make them more visible. Please note the Community Playbook is linked on the website and community portal. This solution is just temporary - as next year we will be able to do this more easily on the platform - but hopefully, it can help with the community’s needs.
If you have any questions please ket me know.
Thank you,
Hillary