Speech is often the most natural way we communicate with each other and voice technologies are bringing that convenience to our computers and mobile devices. We want to empower developers to build amazing voice recognition applications like real-time translators and voice-enabled digital assistants. But right now most of the voice data required to build these kinds of apps is expensive and proprietary. We hope the Common Voice dataset will give developers what they need to innovate and make speech technology available in their own language.  To make voice recognition even more universal, we're collecting voice samples in widely spoken languages as well as those with a smaller population of speakers often underserved by commercial speech recognition services. Publishing a diverse dataset of voices will empower developers, entrepreneurs, and entire speech communities to address this gap themselves.
講嘢通常係我哋同其他人最自然嘅溝通方式，語音技術亦都令電腦同流動裝置更加方便。我哋希望開發者打造令人驚嘆嘅語音識別程式，例如即時翻譯機、有語音功能嘅數位助理等等。但係而家用嚟建設呢啲軟件要用嘅語音資料，大部分都係好貴嘅，所以我哋希望可以提供Common Voice數據集俾開發者進行創新，亦令我哋可以用自己嘅語言打造語音技術。  為咗令語音識別技術可以更加普遍，我哋收集不論係有廣大使用者，定係較少使用者會講嘅語言（大部分商業語音識別技術對呢啲語言都冇乜支援）嘅語音片段，並發佈一組有多元語言同腔調嘅語音資料集，希望可以提供俾開發者、創業家、以及成個語音技術社群跨越呢道鴻溝。