I think I’m being fairly lenient with what I will accept when doing listening tests, but I take a different approach than others I think: I will only accept a sample if I hear all the words in the displayed text, and if I could recognize all of them on the first listen with my eyes closed. With th…

That’s not an acceptance rate. It’s the ratio of how often you agreed with other validators. One problem with your approach: everyone is biased towards their own accent. So what is unclear to you on the first listen could be perfectly clear to someone else. I validate on whether or not the person s…

But I do agree with you that Mozilla should provide detailed recording and validation guidelines.

Maybe it would be more effective to have verifiers transcribe the sentence they hear, instead of just a check?

I’m pretty sure that would lead to many orthographic issues. If practical at all, these transcriptions would need an extra validation pass where they are proof-read by others.

I feel that listeners are too lenient with samples

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Michael_Maggs (Michael Maggs) March 3, 2019, 9:12pm 6

I agree that some validators seem quite lenient. I’m hoping some clearer guidelines might help: Discussion of new guidelines for recording validation

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I feel that listeners are too lenient with samples

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