October community campaign

Common Voice
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Hi everyone,

As some of you have already noticed through Firefox Desktop snippets, Mozilla Activate newsletter and social media, this week we have launched a community campaign to get a boost in contributions for the languages we have at least 1M sentences.

We have launched efforts in English, German, French and Spanish.

So far we are seeing a huge increase in contributions, so much that our server was a bit overloaded on Monday :wink:

Please keep an eye on new recordings and please flag any trends you are seeing.

This is a quick report on numbers in the last 7 days to illustrate impact:

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Cheers.

Reminder: We are still looking for help to get other languages to more than 1M sentences so we can feel conformable launching big campaigns like this [Technical feedback needed] Wikipedia extractor script beta

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Hi,

The French Community has made an article about the campaign on the blog :

Common Voice : Aidez nous à atteindre l’objectif des 10 heures pour Octobre

Christophe

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Common Voice made the front page of Hacker News:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21268579

Some interesting comments underneath. Two problems appear to be:

  1. Users don’t know what to look for when validating. This thread is the closest thing to proper validation guidelines and I think it would be really helpful if it was prominently linked on the CV site. At the very least, it should be a sticky topic on this forum.

  2. The process of getting new languages ready for recording is complex / convoluted.

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I absolutely agree, wee need more visible information. It took me a few weeks of reading and trial and error until I understood how this project works.

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Thanks for this link, this is really valuable, and I agree on some of the pain point mentioned. Let’s keep creating a list with all the feedback and see how we can turn it into recommendations for product.

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@nukeador Will Common Voice snippets be shown to Firefox users long-term or is this only intended to be a short-term campaign?

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Snippets are only run for one week, we plan to at least run this same campaign (incorporating any learnings) also in November and December.

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The results after the first week are remarkable, seeing contributions increase from 5X to 15X!

New hours in the last week

  • German: +18 recorded +15 validated (5x)
  • English: +65 recorded +48 validated (7x)
  • French: +48 recorded +31 validated (6x)
  • Spanish: +50 recorded +30 validated (15x)

Thanks @couci for supporting the execution and @mbranson and @r_LsdZVv67VKuK6fuHZ_tFpg or the input, feedback and support from the product site.

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Hi,

With these figures, how many hours does this correspond to the 10-hour target?

Thanks
Christophe

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For French we did 6 times what we usually get in a week, in this case almost 26 validated hours are coming from this campaign.

That’s 260% over our original target of 10 hours