# 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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**Author:** ![tinok](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/discourse.mozilla.org/tinok/32/25881_2.png) [@tinok](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/tinok)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2019, 7:32pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/problems-finding-public-domain-sentences/34790/22 "2019-02-23T19:32:02Z")

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Maybe a useful approach to others: We [started using translations from the English CommonVoice corpus as a source for adding sentences in Arabic.](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/building-an-arabic-dataset-for-common-voice/29728/11?u=tinok)

This requires native speakers to confirm the accuracy of the translations (because we wouldn’t want blindly translated phrases to go to the sentence collector). But it’s a starting point that may work for other languages as well that struggle finding enough CC0 phrases.

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