Odia, being an Indic and one of the six cultural language has many single/double letter words. This 14 words limitation is making the sentences handicapped without a meaning. Even if I break sentences under 14 words, it’s pretty hard to get a meaningful sentence out of those words. I request to ple…

Word limitations can be configured per language. You can find more information here: https://github.com/Common-Voice/sentence-collector/blob/master/shared/validation/VALIDATION.md What do you think how long a sentence should be for Odia so it’s still in the range of acceptable clip length? @nukead…

@mkohler , Thanks for the guidance. It would be enough to increase the words from 14 to 30. I have submitted a PR for that as per the instructions.

@soumendra thanks for your feedback. Before moving into any direction, it would be good to understand how long would it take to read a sentence today and also how long (on average) would it take to read a 30 characters sentence. I don’t know if you are, but If you can get a Odia linguistic expert, …

@nukeador responding to the discussions here in this thread, here and here : I just looked up for the United Nations Universal Declarations of Human Rights , a public domain document and has sentences that are quite common in terms of length. I spoke in a moderate speed, and used a stop watch to check…

@mkohler is this something we can change to 20 words? It seems that’s more less 10s.

Increase the number of words limit for Odia

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mkohler (Michael Kohler) May 28, 2020, 6:07pm 7

Yep, this is done now.

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Increase the number of words limit for Odia

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