Weekly Update: Save the date Contribute-athon Global

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:globe_with_meridians: Save the Date Contribute-athon Global - 21st and 14th October

Over the last few weeks, Common Voice Team members have been focusing on developing a New Language Workflow (NLWF) for Common Voice Platform and a Language Diversity Impact assessment.

We would like to invite the community to engage in this work via the Contribute-athon Global. Contribute-athons are voice challenge events encouraging contributions to Common Voice. Check out a previous one we ran on youtube..

The sessions will be on:

Thursday 21st October

Thursday 14th October

The sessions will also feature contributions elements for voice and text, community feedback on the New Language Workflow (7th October) and Language Diversity Impact assessment (14th October).

An agenda and registration link will be shared in advance. To support everyone’s paricipation we will ensure there are enough breaks and that you can jump in if you can’t attend the full session.

We hope you can make it!

Contribute-athon Call for contributions

You can participate in shaping the Contribute-athon Global by…

  • Volunteering as a facilitator in one of the 5 UN Languages
  • Suggesting interesting projects using Common Voice
  • Presenting a community lightning talk on localisation, mobilising community or sentence collection

Please email commonvoice@mozilla.com if you would like to help out!

:earth_africa:Reminder: Common Voice Language Reps

Applications close this Thursday 23rd September (midnight UTC+1) for Common Voice language reps, I encourage you to apply!

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Hey everyone, I’m messaging to share that we are rescheduling the 7th October to 21st. Registration will be open soon !

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Hey everyone, you can now register to attend the Contribute-athon Global: https://ti.to/Mozilla/common-voice-contribute-athon

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Have you signed up yet ! Check out the agenda to learn more about the sessions !

Agenda

Thursday 14th October, 9 am to 11:30 am [UTC]

Creating with Common Voice, Remy - 9:15am to 9:30am Mbaza, a chatbot that provides timely and accurate information about the COVID-19 pandemic in the Kinyarwanda, French, and English languages

Let’s Contribute - 10am to 10:30am Onboarding to learn how you can contribute to Common Voice

New Language Workflow - 10:45am to 11:30am We want to improve the experiences of the end to end process for languages on Common Voice. Share your views on: What documentation support is missing and needs to be prioritised? How could we change the 5000 sentence collection requirement to be more nuanced?

Thursday 14th October, 4pm to 6pm [UTC]

Creating with Common Voice, Paul and Genta - 4:10pm to 4:25pm Learn how Paul is using Common Voice for training a Spoken Language Identifier. Genta will talk about their co-authored paper on “Meta-Transfer Learning for Code-Switched Speech Recognition”.

Language Diversity Impact Assessment - 4:30pm to 5:15pm The language diversity impact assessment is a way of informing decisions about what features are built-in Common Voice by evaluating the impact on language communities and potential mitigation strategies.

Let’s Contribute - 5:30pm to 6pm Onboarding to learn how you can contribute to Common Voice

Thursday 21st October, 9am to 11:30am [UTC]

Hacktoberfest Special - 9:10am to 9:45am Common Voice is an open-source project, learn how you can contribute with or without code!

Let’s Contribute - 10am to 10:45am Learn how you can contribute to Common Voice

New Language Workflow - 10:45am to 11:30am We want to improve the experiences of the end to end process for languages on Common Voice. Share your views on: What documentation support is missing and needs to be prioritised? How could we change the 5000 sentence collection requirement to be more nuanced?

Thursday 21st October, 1pm to 3:30pm [UTC]

Creating with Common Voice, Naail - 1:10pm to 1:25pm Learn how Naail, Common Voice Dhivehi Community is using the Common Voice Dataset.

Language Diversity Impact Assessment - 1:30pm to 2:15pm The language diversity impact assessment is a way of informing decisions about what features are built-in Common Voice by evaluating the impact on language communities and potential mitigation strategies.

Let’s Contribute - 2:30pm to 3pm Validation Party! Helps us to validate voice clips on Common Voice