Hello everyone :slightly_smiling_face: :grinning: We would like to gather feedback on a situation that we have been monitoring for some time. When Common Voice started, industry benchmarks suggested that around 5000 hours of ASR training data might be required for training a robust STT model that …

This is awesome. But as someone who work with a few minority languages, I think the biggest obstacle is not only the website localization, but also the steps prior to it, especially #1unclear requirements of requesting a new language, and #2 the lack of guidances on the text/written part of the requ…

Because people simply don’t know how to write the language, let alone doing translation. Just a minor addition to these very nice points: In the case of endangered languages (<10.000), most speakers are very old, illiterate, and naturally don’t use computers/smartphones either. We are trying to f…

Just came across another good examples Merging Norwegian Nynorsk and Norwegian Bokmål https://github.com/common-voice/common-voice/issues/4454 I believe this issue will become more common as we expand the language support to more minority languages.

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laubonghaudoi (laubonghaudoi) May 22, 2024, 8:22pm 4

Just came across another good examples

Merging Norwegian Nynorsk and Norwegian Bokmål
https://github.com/common-voice/common-voice/issues/4454

I believe this issue will become more common as we expand the language support to more minority languages.

Topic		Replies	Views
Request for New Language: Yiddish Common Voice	4	507	September 10, 2021
Multilanguage site localization Common Voice l10n	5	1182	February 8, 2019
Dataset And New Language Request Common Voice l10n	1	1221	April 16, 2020
Common Voice Localisation Overhaul Common Voice	0	258	August 7, 2024
Languages addressed Common Voice	24	3894	May 15, 2018

Streamlining Localization and Reducing Barriers for Common Voice Communities

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