Our HK community is planning to demonstrate Common Voice this Thursday’s “Elder Tech Expo”, and would like to collect visitor’s voices during the event.
It’s a great opportunity to initiating the Cantonese collecting because elder people are one of the big part of local OSS project contributor. And they’re really want to preserve Cantonese voice as soon as possible.
(One of the successful example is “Free Hong Kong Fonts” created by our elder contributors.)
Context: The team has been focused on an issue with clip uploads yesterday and also the deployment of the partner challenge work is also happening as we speak. Megan can provide more realistic expectations, but I just wanted to flag that this might not be possible this week.
Ideally we should see what’s the realistic time-frame for requests like this, so we can work with Megan to be able to provide the expectations way in advance
No problem, I think we can still take good chance to promoting that “Common Voice is going to launch soon for Cantonese” during the event and had people try recording Mandarin under zh-tw version instead.
Thanks for the flag @nukeador and for the understanding @irvin – I’ll get this on our Jira instance for triaging into the next sprint. Ruben will be part of that thread and can help update here when the deploy is live. Realistically it’s helpful to have 2 week notice for intake of sentence upload requests into the next sprint (we’re on a 2 week cadence). Thanks for the patience and dedication to this work!
