DRAFT GUIDELINES FOR REVIEWING UPLOADED TEXTS A proposal to improve the Review Sentences paragraph currently found on this page: https://common-voice.github.io/sentence-collector/#/how-to [Edited to include comments up to 8 July 2019] Make sure the uploaded text meets the following criteria: It…

Here’s a question: You recommend opensubtitles.org as a great source. But if I look for movie subtitles aren’t the scripts copyrighted, even if it’s transcribed by some dude in a basement? And what about translated subtitles, do the rights belong to the translator or the owner of rights for the o…

[image] sixten: Here’s a question: You recommend opensubtitles.org as a great source. … I’m just a volunteer here, so can’t reply officially. But I do think that the advice given is wrong. Subtitles may well have copyright protection, especially if many examples are taken from a database. A…

There are a handful of “open source” movies like Sintel, Elephant’s Dream, Big Buck Bunny, etc. I’m not sure how many are CC0 though. The current cutoff for US copyright expiration (i.e. when creative works become public domain) is 1923, while the first “talkie” was released in 1927. So it will be …

Hi all, at least in the French corpus, I can see people uploading segmented pieces of sentences coming from books. I guess it comes from a restriction on sizes, but the outcome is that these segments sound somehow weird, as they can represent the middle of a full sentence. Thus there is no mistake …

Hi @Bloubi – Yes, this is happening in English as well. As suggested in the guidelines above, such ‘sentences’ should in my opinion be rejected as they make no sense, are non-grammatical, and are often difficult for volunteers to read. It’s been suggested several times that the Sentence Collector …

Hi @Michael_Maggs , thanks. Meanwhile, I’ll reject them manually if they cross my path. Cedric

[image] Michael_Maggs: It’s been suggested several times that the Sentence Collector should reject uploads that start with a lower-case letter, but that’s not been implemented yet About this, a sentence starting with lower case doesn’t mean the sentence is wrong by default. as I commented in t…

Let’s continue to discuss the specific point at https://github.com/Common-Voice/sentence-collector/issues/202

[image] Michael_Maggs: Subtitles may well have copyright protection, especially if many examples are taken from a database. It is for example quite noticeable that a substantial part of the Swedish sentences come from the opensubtitles.org subtitles for the Netflix movie Budapest. A sentence…

Discussion of new guidelines for uploaded sentence validation

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Michael_Maggs (Michael Maggs) April 2, 2019, 4:11pm 2

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Discussion of new guidelines for uploaded sentence validation

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