<p>Common Voice is a publicly available voice dataset, powered by the voices of volunteer contributors around the world. People who want to build voice applications can use the dataset to train machine learning models.</p> <p>At present, most voice datasets are owned by companies, which stifles innovation. Voice datasets also underrepresent: non-English speakers, people of colour, disabled people, women and LGBTQIA+ people. This means that voice-enabled technology doesn’t work at all for many languages, and where it does work, it may not perform equally well for everyone. We want to change that by mobilising people everywhere to share their voice.</p>
<p>Common Voice is 'n stemdatastel wat beskikbaar is in die publiekedomein en aangedryf word deur die stemme van vrywillige bydraers regoor die wêreld. Mense wat stemtoepassings wil bou, kan die datastel gebruik om masjienleermodelle op te lei.</p> <p>Op die oomblik word die meeste stemdatastelle deur maatskappye besit, wat innovasie beperk. Stemdatastelle onderverteenwoordig ook: nie-Engelssprekendes, anderskleuriges, gestremdes, vroue en mense in die LGBTQIA+ gemeenskap. Dit beteken dat stemgeaktiveerde tegnologie vir heelwat tale glad nie werk nie, en waar dit wel werk, presteer dit dalk nie ewe goed vir almal nie. Ons wil dit verander deur mense wêreldwyd te mobiliseer om hul stem te deel.</p>