# Problems finding public domain sentences

**URL:** <https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/problems-finding-public-domain-sentences/34790>\
**Category:** Common Voice\
**Tags:** sentence-collection\
**Created:** [January 3, 2019, 7:26pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/problems-finding-public-domain-sentences/34790 "2019-01-03T19:26:23Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 4, 2019, 10:56am UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/problems-finding-public-domain-sentences/34790/2 "2019-01-04T10:56:07Z")

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> [@Codigo\_Logo\_Programacao\_e\_Inteligencia\_Artificial](#):
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> If we couldn’t find any Creative Commons licensed material, can we translated from the English dataset? I mean, we could also use this dataset for machine translation later on, There are many datasets, but none of them seems to fit the required, most of them are under the MIT license.

Which language are you having problems finding public domain sentences?

From my observations the most efficient way to contribute to the corpus is find a lot of public domain corpus somewhere.

But, I know that for some languages this is not possible so own creation is preferred to translation to have more natural sentences and cover more sounds. Also, I personally think that it takes less time to create new sentences than translating the English ones.

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