Idioma: English (mozilla)
Thursday, March 3rd, 2022: 9am CET // 11am EAT
Mozilla Common Voice and MozFest are working to improve the representation of Kiswahili in Common Voice; an open, crowd-sourced database designed to help people create voice recognition applications that better understand a diverse set of languages and accents.
The goal of this weeklong contribute-a-thon will be to increase participation for varying dialects and accents of Kiswahili that are typically underrepresented in voice databases globally. Partners include: Devstoriesafrica, Hekaya Initiative, Utafiti Hub, Pwani Teknowgalz, Swahilipot Hub, GIZ FairForward, and KenCorpus.
The goal of this weeklong contribute-a-thon will be to increase participation for varying dialects and accents of Kiswahili that are typically underrepresented in voice databases globally.
¿Por qué has elegido ese espacio? ¿Cómo se ajusta tu sesión a la descripción del espacio?:Facilitators are Mozilla staff and fellows.
¿Cómo vas a hacer frente si varía el número de participantes en tu sesión? ¿Y si asisten 30 participantes? ¿Y si son 3?:the more, the better. contributions happen async over the week.
¿Qué pasará después del MozFest? Esperamos que muchos esfuerzos y discusiones continúen después de MozFest. Comparte cualquier idea que tengas sobre cómo continuar el trabajo de tu sesión.:we keep growing the kiswahili community in common voice
¿En qué idioma te gustaría realizar tu sesión?: Inglés, Kiswahili
Hillary (she/her) is the Common Voice Community Manager at Mozilla. Mozilla Common Voice is an open-source initiative to make voice technology more inclusive. Contributors donate speech data to a public dataset, which anyone can then use to train voice-enabled technology. As part of the role, Hillary support language communities through activities such as the Common Voice Language Reps to facilitate community feedback and cross-communal learning.
Britone Mwasaru is a technologist and community builder. He will be working on voice technology with a focus on the Kiswahili language.
