Welcome back to the weekly update from the Common Voice Community team. We’ve had a busy week with the new Sentence Collector update. Now you can write your own original sentences right in the main Common Voice UI. Anyone can write or submit new sentences but you’ll need to be logged in with an account to review new sentences. If you spot a bug or problem with the new Sentence Collector, could you let us know by raising an issue?
Right now you can only submit one qualifying sentence at a time using the Sentence Collector. So we’ve also created some new documentation showing you how to create bulk sentence submission to support the corpus of your favorite languages.
If you work with Voice and/or Speech data and have the time to take a short survey to help academics better understand your dataset documentation practices, @kath at ANU has a short survey open now that you can take.
If you’re a French speaker (or ever wanted to learn a bit more French!) Common Voice will be represented at at upcoming Geek Faëries(https://www.geekfaeries.fr/) festival June 2-4th in Loir-et-Cher. A rare chance to contribute to Common Voice in person, in cosplay!
That’s it for this week. Did we miss something? Got something cool coming up we can share with the community? Or you want us to brag about something amazing you’ve done? Just reply here, say hello on Matrix or email commonvoice@mozilla.com and we’ll joyously include you in the next update.
Best,
Jess