Hello everyone, I would like to open this topic to collect feedback from all our communities and partners. This topic contains a proposal crafted by the Common Voice and Deep Speech staff teams based on conversations with different volunteers and linguistics experts. We will keep this topic open f…

[image] trang: When people will start to request languages that are not so common, it will become difficult to know if they’re requesting a valid language. When in doubt, we will request the help of a linguistic expert to decide. [image] trang: Based on those two problems, in Tatoeba we …

[image] iveskins: So there are a plurality of Englishes around the world which share many but not all words. If each language has just one dataset, will the unique features of each country be left out, or all mixed together. Note that while English is one dataset, the accents metadata would a…

I take a note about listing languages, but there is probably a fair amount of work for us to analyze all languages in advance rather that analyzing them as they are requested. You wouldn’t have to analyze all the languages in advance. The purpose is more that you wouldn’t have to take the respons…

[image] trang: Concretely if you were to add Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian to your supported languages, you’d probably prefer to present them as different languages from the user interface. But under the hood you could remap the data into one “technical language” with different accents, if that’…

I just want to say that in case of Basque language, choosing a region is OK. Choosing a city wouldn’t work and for some speakers would be confusing. Accent regions and political regions don’t match, so some people could choose the nearest city or the city into their political region and would do a w…

Hi, I’m a bit late to the party here, but I’d like to offer a linguist’s point view. TLDR; we should not crowdsource these definitions. Incorporate academic resources instead. Writing is a technology that has to be invented recently. Native speakers universally acquire their native language. A na…

In practical terms, what crowdsourced questions would be useful for describing the speech production itself. I imagine independent of the language/variety designation, we can get meaningful self-reported information along several axes: Stable-Unstable “When you speak this language, how stable is y…

Do you have any empirical evidence that people are not able to self-classify their accents and that the subsequent classifications are not useful for the task of producing targetted speech recognition?

This is more or less the right approach.

@ftyers sometimes. Ferragne_2010_JPho.pdf has a British Isles English accent map, sort of. (1.3 MB)

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The latest version of the strategy (v5) is now published here

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