# November community campaign

**URL:** <https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/november-community-campaign/49255>\
**Category:** Common Voice\
**Tags:** participation, announcements\
**Created:** [November 25, 2019, 12:24pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/november-community-campaign/49255 "2019-11-25T12:24:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![nukeador](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/discourse.mozilla.org/nukeador/32/20533_2.png) [@nukeador](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/nukeador)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2019, 12:24pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/november-community-campaign/49255/1 "2019-11-25T12:24:22Z")

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Good Monday everyone,

This month we followed-up with our community campaigns, and as [we did in October](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/october-community-campaign/46943), we also run efforts through snippets and social media in the languages we had at least 1M sentences.

This time the efforts were run in: English, German, French, Spanish and Italian.

Again, Common Voice November community campaign followed the lead of the previous success last month. Last week we saw increases in the number of weekly recorded and validated clips from 1,5x to 36x from our new campaign participant, Italian!

| Language | Recorded | Validated | Increase from prev. week |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| English | 47hrs | 30hrs | 8x |
| Italian | 36hrs | 16hrs | 36x |
| Spanish | 18hrs | 11hrs | 9x |
| French | 16hrs | 9hrs | 3x |
| German | 15hrs | 8hrs | 1,5x |

We also got 57K visitors, that’s 6 times more than the previous week.

 ![imagen](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/uploads/mozilla/original/3X/c/a/ca894242e34cdfa7ede49ad4bba5826bf850a692.png)

Thanks everyone who participated and supported this effort!

Cheers.

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**Author:** ![stergro](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/discourse.mozilla.org/stergro/32/40229_2.png) [@stergro](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/stergro)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2019, 1:44pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/november-community-campaign/49255/2 "2019-11-25T13:44:47Z")

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That’s great. Any idea why German has only an increase of 1,5 this time?

Also congratulations for 1k hours of validated voices and 50k donators in the English dataset! I made this screenshot on Saturday:

 ![Screenshot_20191123-142239](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/uploads/mozilla/original/3X/6/c/6c8b8887fa54c64d216fb840cdde44280d2d345e.png)

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**Author:** ![nukeador](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/discourse.mozilla.org/nukeador/32/20533_2.png) [@nukeador](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/nukeador)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2019, 2:06pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/november-community-campaign/49255/3 "2019-11-26T14:06:22Z")

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> [@stergro](#):
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> That’s great. Any idea why German has only an increase of 1,5 this time?

Apparently Firefox in German had a lot of marketing snippets also last week and that’s why we reached way less people.

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**Author:** ![nukeador](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/discourse.mozilla.org/nukeador/32/20533_2.png) [@nukeador](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/nukeador)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 1:45pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/november-community-campaign/49255/4 "2019-12-03T13:45:13Z")

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As a follow-up, we plan to run again a snippets campaign next week (Dec 9th - Dec 15th) in the same languages.

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**Author:** ![EwoutH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ac91a4/32.png) [@EwoutH](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/EwoutH)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2019, 10:38pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/november-community-campaign/49255/5 "2019-12-09T22:38:28Z")

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@nukeador How far is Dutch from having 1M sentences?

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**Author:** ![nukeador](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/discourse.mozilla.org/nukeador/32/20533_2.png) [@nukeador](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/nukeador)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2019, 11:34am UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/november-community-campaign/49255/6 "2019-12-10T11:34:23Z")

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Dutch currently has around 5K sentences. My recommendation on the easiest way to get 1M (or close) sentences is to get technical people to help with the wikipedia extractor in Dutch

> [@\[Technical feedback needed\] Wikipedia extractor script beta](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/technical-feedback-needed-wikipedia-extractor-script-beta/42983/):
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> Important: [Please go to this topic for the most updated information about the sentence extractor and how to use it](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/sentence-extractor-current-status-and-workflow-summary/62332). Hello everyone, As we announced a few months ago, as an effort to get sentences from large sources of data, we found a legal way to [extract some wikipedia sentences](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/extending-our-sentence-collection-capabilities/38783) for our corpus under Public Domain, so we can have enough volume to accommodate the minimum 2000hrs of voice we want to collect to create a basic model for speech recognition. Today I want to share the script we ha…

This is how we managed to get Spanish, German, French, Italian or Catalan with that amount of sentences. Please, let me know if you have any questions.

Cheers.

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**Author:** ![nukeador](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/discourse.mozilla.org/nukeador/32/20533_2.png) [@nukeador](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/nukeador)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2019, 1:09pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/november-community-campaign/49255/7 "2019-12-11T13:09:37Z")

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