Are there any stats available on the gender-breakdown of the dataset? From the small subset I was able to analyse, it appears to be over 9:1 male:female voices in the English language dataset. If this is representative of the data as a whole, we stand a pretty serious risk of accidentally biasing t…

I also think there is a danger of under performance in the trained model for female, children and old people voices as they are underrepresented. The best we can do is to spread the existence of Common Voice hoping more women are willing to contribute. I guess we could bet on the feminist networks…

Coincidentally, I’ve filed a bug for this on the voice-web repo today: https://github.com/mozilla/voice-web/issues/1508 Targeted web-based advertising would seem like a good way to attack this problem.

Currently, Mozilla has put no marketing effort behind Common Voice, all our traffic comes organically through media articles and blog posts. If we did put some money into driving traffic to the site, I agree we should focus on a female audience. With this being the case, it is very hard for us to c…

Michael can you link me to some info on the upcoming profile system? I’ve been wondering if it might be possible to create an in-person street/stall experience that mozillians could use to recruit more volunteers. Something like a multiple microphone input setup to simultaneously record multiple sa…

Gender breakdown of English language dataset

Common Voice

Topic		Replies	Views
How will the lack of female voices be handled? Common Voice feedback	9	1727	May 30, 2019
International Women's Day #BreakTheBias Common Voice digital-inclusion	1	1500	April 5, 2022
How to "un-bias" a language? Common Voice	11	936	March 7, 2021
Common Voice for Healthcare (Edge Cases) Common Voice	6	630	August 26, 2024
Common Voice 10th Dataset Release Using the common voice dataset announcements	0	1378	July 7, 2022

Gender breakdown of English language dataset

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