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.
Spraak is dikwels die mees natuurlike manier waarop ons met mekaar kommunikeer en stemtegnologieë bring daardie gerief na ons rekenaars en mobiele toestelle. Ons wil ontwikkelaars bemagtig om wonderlike stemherkenningstoepassings soos intydse vertalers en stemgeaktiveerde digitale assistente te bou. Maar op die oomblik is die meeste van die stemdata wat nodig is om hierdie soort toepassings te bou, duur en nie algemeen beskikbaar nie. Ons hoop dat die Common Voice-datastel ontwikkelaars dit wat hulle nodig het om innoverende  produkte en spraaktegnologieë te ontwikkel in hul eie taal, sal bied, sodat hierdie tegnologieë beskikbaar gestel kan word.  Om stemherkenning nog meer universeel te maak, samel ons stemmonsters in in wyd gesproke tale sowel as in dié met kleiner spraakgemeenskappe wat dikwels nie deur kommersiële spraakherkenningsdienste onderskep word nie. Die publikasie van 'n diverse datastel van klankopnames sal ontwikkelaars, entrepreneurs en hele spraakgemeenskappe bemagtig om hierdie leemte self aan te spreek.