Read wikipedia and give audio?

Common Voice
#1

Hi,

Would it be a good idea to read some pages of Wikipedia and give the audio?
What’s the procedure? Where to upload the data? Available for Italian?

Thanks,
A.

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#2

Thanks for starting this thread. The voice.mozilla.org sentence corpus already includes data from Wikipedia. We’ve imported a maximum of 3 sentences per article (as per legal requirement) and they will show up when contributing your voice.

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#3

Thanks for your answer. So what written long(er) sources can I read in Italian?

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#4

@a.mascitti you might also be interested in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Spoken_Wikipedia, the project for recording audio versions of Wikipedia articles.

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#5

Another project that could be interesting for you is librivox, audiobooks under public domain: https://librivox.org/

People use both projects to train speech recognition software, so this could also help Common Voice indirectly in the future.

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#6

It would be interesting if contributors could link a Wikimedia / Librivox account to their CV account to algorithmically compare the long form and clip-based audio samples.